YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA PRESENTS
NOTES Tereus, a son of War, lusts after his wife’s sister, Philomela. He seizes her and rapes her in the woods. She begs for death. He cuts her tongue off instead. Tereus tells his wife, Procne, that her sister is dead. A year passes, during which Tereus frequently visits Philomela. She weaves a portrait of Tereus’s crime into a tapestry and sends it to Procne, who finds her. Together they murder Itys (Procne and Tereus’s son), roast him, and feed him to an unsuspecting Tereus. He goes mad when he learns he’s gorged on Itys. Tereus tries to kill the sisters, but they escape by turning into birds. In the end, he, too, becomes a bird. —DOMINGUEZ AND TAMBURRI, AFTER OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
“[A] beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that’s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of
TITUS ANDRONICUS
—DOSTOEVSKY, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be portrayed in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies[.]” —VONNEGUT, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by JACK TAMBURRI
“Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.” —SCARRY, THE BODY IN PAIN
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 AT 4PM FRIDAY, APRIL 6 AT 4PM AND 8PM SATURDAY, APRIL 7 AT 4PM
2011–12 SEASON
The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes that process.
ISEMAN THEATER 1156 CHAPEL STREET