the aftermath of and the buildup to that event, known largely through the work of . In one sense, we go backwards in time, as Agamemnon takes place ten years after Iphigenia at Aulis. But time flows in the other di‐ rection as well ‐ Agamemnon was written by in 458 BC, while Eu‐ ripides' Iphigenia premiered over 50 years later. In between these two plays about a disastrous war, the Athenian democracy fought the disastrous Pelo‐ ponnesian War with Sparta, a 27 year run of deeply bad decisions which ulti‐ mately led to the downfall of Athens. Aeschylus was a war hero who had fought at the defining and glorious battle of Marathon, and in the gathering TROY: storm of the coming war he warned about the dangers of a victory bought with savagery. Euripides was at the end of his life an exile, looking from a distance at his city stripped of its empire and its democracy, perhaps won‐ dering how on earth his people had gotten themselves into this mess in the After and Before first place.

Sometimes it is necessary to see the end before you can understand the be‐ ginning. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

Translated by LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Robert Fagles Chair, Paul Muldoon

Associate Director, Fanny Chouinard Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis PROGRAM IN THEATER & DANCE Translated by Lucas Barron ’09 Director Michael Cadden Acting Head of Dance Rebecca Lazier Directed by Tim Vasen Thesis Advisor Tim Vasen Faculty Advisor Jill Dolan Faculty Advisor Robert N. Sandberg Faculty Advisor Stacy Wolf Managing Director Darryl Waskow Production Stage Manager Carmelita Becnel Costume Shop Manager Catherine Cann Costume Shop Assistant Danielle L. Schembre November Technical Director Timothy Godin Master Carpenter William Wilson Props Carpenter Michael McLean 14-15 & 20-22, 2008 Scenic Artist Sarah Donner Theater Technician Kelly Arlinghaus All performances at 8:00 PM Academic Support Joseph Fonseca

For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts and up‐ Berlind Theatre coming events, visit: www.princeton.edu/arts McCarter Theatre Center Or contact: Princeton, Director of Communications, Marguerite d’Aprile‐Smith [email protected] PRODUCTION TEAM Director Tim Vasen TROY: Stage Manager Carmelita Becnel Set Designer Michael Sims After and Before Lighting Designer Paul Hackenmueller Assistant Lighting Designer Derek Wright Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis Costume Designer Anya Klepikov Translated by Robert Fagles** Translated by Lucas Barron ’09* Costume Shop Head/Draper Becca Pryce Costume Stitcher Sue Kandziolka Costume Shop Assistants Karen Campion ’11; Shannon Lee Clair ’09; Directed by Tim Vasen Ariel Sorensen ’12 Choreography Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10* Agamemnon (90 min) takes place in Argos, in front of the King’s palace, ten Vocals Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10*, Dominique Salerno ’10* years after the start of the Trojan War. Stage Crew Anna Oldham, Jesse Parsons

BERLIND THEATRE STAFF Iphigenia in Aulis (75 min) takes place ten years earlier, as the Greek army awaits Berlind Master Electrician Rob Crane a good wind to set sail for Troy. Berlind Stage Supervisor Matthew Pilsner

There will be a fifteen minute intermission between the plays. A NOTE FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR ‐ Michael Cadden

Tonight’s performance grew out of a course made possible by the generosity of CAST for Agamemnon (AG) and Iphigenia at Aulis (IP) Princeton’s Program in Hellenic Studies, headed by Dimitri Gondicas, a worthy

Adam Zivkovic ’10* .. ………….. Chorus (AG), Agamemnon (IP) contemporary practitioner of the ancient Greek art of hospitality. In the spring of 2008, Tim Vasen and I taught a course entitled Re: Staging the Greeks. The Bethy Atkins ’11 ...... ………….. Servant (AG), Chorus (IP) sixteen enrolled students read, discussed, and performed scene work from all of Dominique Salerno ’10* ………..Klytaemnestra (AG) the plays of Aeschylus, , Euripides, and Aristophanes in preparation for Forest Sebastian ’10*……...…… Chorus (AG), Old Servant (IP) a spring break trip to Greece, funded by the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund of Lea Steinacker ’11 ..... …………... Herald (AG), Chorus (IP) the Program in Hellenic Studies. We spent the week visiting the ancient theatres Lovell Holder ’09*.... …………... Chorus Leader (AG), Menelaus (IP) and other related sites, and working with Greek theater professionals. At the end of the trip, the students and teachers, seated on a hotel roof looking up at Lucas Barron ’09* .... …………... Watchman (AG), Messenger (IP) the Acropolis, voted to produce the two plays you’re seeing tonight. Actually, Olivia Stoker ’11...... ……………Chorus (IP) the vote was deadlocked between two options, so we put the ballots in a Paul Miller ’10*...... ……………Aegisthus (AG), Achilles (IP) pillowcase and I drew the option we’ve entitled Troy: After and Before. In relying Philicia Saunders ’10*……………Chorus (AG) on what we call chance, we let the gods make their call.

Phoenix Gonzalez ’11 ………….. Servant (AG), Chorus (IP) Tonight’s Iphigenia at Aulis has been translated by Lucas Barron ’09, one of the Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10*……………Chorus (AG), Chorus (IP) students in our course. The late Robert Fagles, Arthur Marks ’19 of Sara‐Ashley Bischoff ’09* …….. .Chorus (AG), Klytaemnestra (IP) Comparative Literature at Princeton, provides us with our version of Shannon Lee Clair ’09*………… Cassandra (AG), Chorus (IP) Agamemnon. A world‐renowned translator of the , Professor Fagles was also a longtime friend and supporter of Princeton’s Program in Theater and Tyler Crosby ’09*..... ………….. Agamemnon (AG) Dance and a gentlemanly but fierce advocate for the arts within the broader Veronica Siverd ’10* ……………Iphigenia (IP) university community. We respectfully dedicate this production to his memory.

A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR ‐ Tim Vasen *Denotes a Junior or Senior Certificate Student in Theater & Dance. THE SAME OLD STORIES

** From THE by Aeschylus and translated by Robert Fagles. Copyright (c) Robert The Greeks loved to tell war stories; more than half of the extant tragedies of Fagles, 1966, 1967, 1975, 1977. Used through arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, those clever people who brought us Theater behalf of Robert Fagles. All rights reserved.