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Lake Forest College Theater Department Performs "All of Orestes"

"All of Orestes" performed at Lake Forest College.


Directed and created by Sean Graney.

Come experience a Greek tragedy with laughs!


All of Orestes is a three-act look at Orestes and his descent into matricidal madness. A modern adaptation of nearly all the Greek tragedies that feature Orestes (Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Sophocles’ Elektra, and Euripides’ Elektra,Orestes, Andromache and Iphigenia in Tauris).

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Orestes returns to Argos ten years after his mother kills his father to enact murderous revenge with the help of his sister Elektra. Hunted by the Furies, he finally abandons his flight and stands trial under a new system of justice.


Cast members:

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Stepen Bromfield: Orestes


Maya Beckles:
Calchas + Cassandra + Andromache

Madison Gordon: Achilles + Neoptolemus

Sam Kaser: Clytemnestra + Clytemnestra's Murderer

Selmir Klicic: Agamemnon + Sisyphus Stoneroller

Kiersten Kolstad: Elektra + Helen

Ayden Lopez: Menelaus + Aegisthus

Jenna Mary Madeley: Iphigenia + Hermione

Nick Banks: Pylades


Director: Sean Graney, Artistic Director of The Hypocrites, Chicago, IL


February 21 - March 2, 2013
(Two weekends: Thursday and Friday @ 7:30 p.m.; Saturday @ 7:30 and 11:30 p.m.)


Hixon Hall, South Campus, Lake Forest College


Please email theater@mx.lakeforest.edu to reserve your tickets. Tickets are $3 for students and seniors. $7 for adults. Please be sure to specify how many tickets and which dates and times you want in your email. Cash payment at the door.


Come support your local college!


Also coming in April, Once On This Island, a musical directed by Dennis Mae, with student performers and creative staff of the Garrick Players of Lake Forest College.

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