Oimoi Productions proudly hosts Tragic Saturday Afternoons (a continuation of Amy Chartrand’s Tragedy in the Park series), 4 pm Saturdays at the Freestanding Room. Come, read, and casually discuss a tragedy, ancient or modern. Snacks, beer, and scripts provided, but please RSVP with info@oimoiproductions.com or on Facebook.
2016
April 29, Tragic Friday 5à7 (part of Portals, Gates Conference)! Sophocles’ Elektra, trans. Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming
Mar. 12, Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
Mar. 5, Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott
Feb. 27, 17h (as part of the Shortstanding Festival!) H.D.’s Choruses from Iphigenia in Aulis
Jan. 16- Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses
2015
Dec. 12- Charles Mee’s Gone/Requiem for the dead
Dec. 5- T.S. Eliot’s Family Reunion
March 21- Aeschylus’ Eumenides
Feb. 21- Aescylus’ Persians/ Xerxes
Jan. 9- Tragic Friday Evening! Ted Hughes’ Alkestis
2014
Nov. 1- Sophocles’ Trachinai, trans. by Ezra Pound
Oct. 25- Steven Carter’s Pecong
Oct. 18 Caridad Svich’s Wreckage
Oct. 11 Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats
Oct. 4- Saturday Afternoon Field trip to see NT’s Medea at the Forum Cinema
March 8- Euripides’ Orestes
March 15- Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
March 22- Comic Saturday Afternoon! Aristophanes’ Frogs
March 29- Seneca’s Medea April 5- Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats
Jan. 11- Euripides’ Helen (piña colada party!)
Jan. 18- Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to blame
Jan. 25- Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes
Feb. 1- Seneca’s Oedipus
Feb. 8- Caridad Svich’s Iphigenia crash land falls on the neon shell that was once her heart
2013
Nov. 30- Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched
Nov. 23- Seneca’s Thyestes (trans. David Slavitt)
Nov. 16- Charles Mee’s Big Love
Nov. 9- Aeschylus’ Suppliants (trans. Peter Burian)
Nov 2.- Euripides’ Hekabe (trans. Anne Carson)