Grossman Ensemble premieres Kate Soper's Lost Greek Tragedies
Performance notes:
Kate Soper's piece Missing Scenes: Lost Greek Tragedies premiered with the Grossman Ensemble on June 7, 2019.
“Lost Greek Tragedies” is the first part of a planned series of explorations into missing scenes—i.e., those inferred conversations, implied actions, and hinted-at events that are withheld from us by an author, director, editor, or simply by fate. In the case of Greek Tragedy, the missing scenes far eclipse the surviving ones. But the bits and pieces of lost plays that have washed up over the centuries are irresistibly poignant. What can be recovered from a mangled paragraph, a broken phrase, or even a single word? Real meaning, or just a shiver of sense? And given how foundational the stories of Greek Tragedy are to our culture, what would be different about our lives if more of these stories had survived?