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THE WORLD PREMIERE PENELOPE
from 2023 Season Brochure
by HVSF
music and lyrics by ALEX BECHTEL
book by ALEX BECHTEL, GRACE MCLEAN & EVA STEINMETZ
directed by EVA STEINMETZ
“I could wait for you forever, If you told me what forever was for.”
A re-imagining of the story of The Odyssey from the point of view of a character often relegated to the margins of the story, Penelope is a musical love letter to all those who wait: For someone they love. For something they believe in. And hope that the wait will end well. An intimate and explosive music theater piece, Penelope invites the audience to join in a ritual act of storytelling to release the pent-up grief, anger, love and longing that are so familiar after the last three years.
Top, right clockwise: Twelfth Night, 2017; Into The Woods, 2019; The Heart Of Robin Hood, 2018; Richard II, 2018; Into The Woods, 2019; The Taming Of The Shrew, 2018.
