Epstein Oratorio or, A Modern Hymn to Demeter
[Program tbd]
Runtime: 50 minutes
A Benefit Reading to Support the Public Integrity Project Suing for the Release of the Epstein Files.
This short poetic, terrifying, and funny political play is an expose of the “Epstein class” played out against the iconic mother-daughter myth of Persephone and Demeter.
Hades presides over both modern and mythic worlds, and a male chorus speaks in language that has been lifted directly from the Epstein files and the news. The victims’ stories are based on actual stories in the files. The weave of myth and fact offers a healing from the trauma of rape by the empowerment of mothers and daughters.
Credits
CAST
Kathleen Chalfant
Phoebe Chaplin
Stella Everett
Robert Farrior
Tu Morrow
Delilah Napier
Barney O’Hanlon
Lena Pepe
Roger Raines
Titus Welliver
Creative Team
Karen Malpede, playwright
Alex Keegan, director
lighting by Tony Giovannetti
Additional credits
photos by Jackie Rudin, Salem Krieger, and Ellen Lynch
cover of the book, published by Tough Poets Review, artwork by Marie Louise Plum
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