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Theodora Skipitares

THEODORA SKIPITARES  

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below is a list of Theodora Skipitares's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Body Of Crime         Exiles, The         Helen         Iphigenia         Lysistrata         Media         Optic Fever         Prometheus Within         Under The Knife         Under The Knife III         Underground         Women of Troy, The

Body Of Crime

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Exiles, The

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adaptation of the Orestes/Electra myth about a brother and sister who avenge the murder of their father and become outcasts in their own city. Adapted and directed by puppet theatre artist Theodora Skipitares, it is inspired by Euripides and The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre. The Exiles unfolds using video projections, masks and puppetry-including five-foot Bunraku puppets strapped to the front of actors' bodies at the head, the chest, the waist, and the knees. Veiled actors speak lines from behind the puppet, much as an actor might have spoken lines from behind a large Greek mask in ancient Greek theatre..
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Adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Helen

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The play begins with Helen's birth story: Zeus comes to Earth disguised as a swan and rapes Leda, who lays an egg from which Helen hatches (as was depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Leda and the Swan," among others). The "alternate" myth of Helen is actually a survival story. Zeus foments the Trojan War in order to lighten the world of men. Hera, suspicious that Zeus was starting a war for his own reasons and using Helen as an excuse, makes a perfect living likeness of Helen out of a cloud and places it with the unsuspecting Paris. This phantom likeness goes to Troy and the real Helen is spirited by Hera to Egypt for 19 years to wait out the war. In the last century, this sojourn was the subject of Richard Strauss' notoriously difficult opera, "Helen in Egypt." Euripides, in "Helen," makes an ironic antiwar statement that the two sides were fighting over a cloud.
- La MaMa E.T.C., NY, USA >>>

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La MaMa E.T.C., NY, USA >>>    13 Feb 2003

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Multi Media

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Iphigenia

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adapted from Euripides by Theodora Skipitares

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Lysistrata

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This is a world-premiere adaptation of Lysistrata by the renowned puppet artist, writer, and director Theodora Skipitares. It which mixes Aristophanes' ancient comic tale about a group of Greek women who withhold sex from their husbands and lovers with video and newsreel footage of actual modern-day international sex strikes. Skipitares applies a variety of theatrical and multimedia twists to the 2500-year-old tale of Lysistrata and her fellow Greek women's ploy to convince the men of ancient Greece to find a peaceful end to war by withholding sexual privileges: from various forms of puppetry to music, choreography, burlesque, a Greek chorus attired in masks and costumes inspired by the ancient Roman Circus and—by way of contrast between the fanciful and the serious—newsreel and video of several sex strikes that have taken place in recent years around the globe, including "The Strike of the Crossed-Legs" conducted by the girlfriends of gang lords in Colombia, a strike in Kenya in the wake of a deadly, corrupt election, and an ongoing naked protest by farmers in Mexico City in retaliation for government appropriation of land.
- nytheatre.com

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Original Playwright - Aristophanes. Music By: Sxip Shirey

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Ellen Stewart Theater, La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    06 Feb 2011

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Skysaver Productions

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Media

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Designed, directed and adapted by Skipitares, Medea is the latest in her series of plays based on Greek classics. Building on Euripides's iconic story of a spurned woman who kills her competition as well as her own children, Skipitares's Medea begins many years before: Medea is a child who lives at the edge of the Black Sea and has profound magical powers, falls in love with the handsome Jason, and helps him steal the Golden Fleece. The story moves forward in time to Corinth, where Medea is abandoned by Jason for the young daughter of the King. The production features puppets, created by Cecilia Schiller and Skipitares, in various styles: colored shadow puppets, small rod puppets, as well as realistic life-size figures operated by actors; along with the use of video and live music, and a chorus represented by gigantic heads worn on the bodies of female performers
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Optic Fever

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Composer: David First

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Prometheus Within

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Inspired by Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway?

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Music composed by Sxip Shirey

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Ellen Stewart Theater, La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    13 Apr 2012

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Under The Knife

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Composer: Virgil Moorefield

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Under The Knife III

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Created, Designed & Directed by: Theodora Skipitares. Composer: Virgil Moorefield

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Underground

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Composer: Bobby Previte

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Women of Troy, The

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The play is based on the merging of two sources: the text of Euripides, and the words of incarcerated women on New York's Riker's Island, developed in performance workshops at the prison. The play features a group of contemporary puppeteers (shadow and Bunraku), who recreate events from the fall of Troy in shadow theater and video projection. In between shadow scenes, a series of 3/4-life-size realistic rod puppets emerge from behind the screen. Each one, operated by a single puppeteer, begins a monologue from an adaptation of Euripides's The Women of Troy. The characters are: Helen of Troy, Queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra, and her daughter-in-law, Andromache. Each is being dragged off "like cattle, far from home," to a life of slavery. As each character is revealed in her monologue, the focus shifts from the puppet to the puppeteer, as the text transforms itself to a present-day reality of imprisonment. The inmates' personal stories bring to life the fabled tales of Greek literature.
- nytheatre.com

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music by Sxip Shirey

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La MaMa E.T.C., NY, USA >>>    11 Oct 2009

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Traveling Players

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Puppets

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