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For reservations, call 312-409-4778
Caffeine Theatre’s Season of Greek Drama
"A vibrant example of how Greek preoccupations can still
get under [modern] skins"
The Independent
After many long years in the "cruel stalemate" of
the Trojan War, a prophecy predicts Greek victory with the bow of Hercules and
the son of Achilles. Odysseus and Achilles’ son Neoptolemus return to the island
where years before the Greeks abandoned the warrior Philoctetes with a terrible
wound in his foot, and Hercules’ bow in his hand. As he follows orders to trick
Philoctetes out of the bow, young Neoptolemus must choose between mercy and
duty, between what he owes to his people, and what he owes to his own humanity.
Opening Weekend:
Previews- Friday, September 15 at 8 PM
Press Opening- Saturday, September 16 at 8 PM
Performance- Sunday, September 17 at 7 PM
Performances Continue through October 8, 2006:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 PM
Sunday at 4 PM and 7 PM
Tickets:
General $15
Students $12
Seniors $12
Group rates available for 10 or more
Reservations Call 312-409-4778
Seamus Heaney, born in Country Derry, Northern Ireland in 1939, has published
several significant volumes of poetry. He cofounded Field Day publishing in 1983
with Brian Friel and Stephen Rea, and has taught poetry and literature at
several major institutions, including Harvard and Oxford. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in 1995 for what the Nobel committee described as "works of lyrical
beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
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