Orphic

When I first started this internship, I was grappling with the question, “What draws you to the Greeks?” The one thing that stood out to me was the universality of the stories, and how stories of people thousands of years ago, in different life situations and mediums than us, can still be relevant to what we personally and societally go through today. I think this idea of universality in storytelling has led me to the way I research the questions I was posed with next: “What

Something that’s struck me in my research on not just Greek theatre, but also on theatre in general, is how scholars have, in the past, prioritized reading—and only reading—extant texts, especially theatrical texts, rather than thinking of them as performance pieces. I feel like it's vital to examine these pieces as holistically as possible, to take into account all of the different possible forms, and to make claims based on this wider view of the text, rather than just one

In order to help Anya, Andrew, and the rest of the Orphic team better understand the world of our new Agamemnon, I was given the task of researching the 1980s crack epidemic in Oakland, California. Anya’s play is completely immersed in this underworld of drug lords and addicts. I was excited to receive this research prompt: I’m from the Bay Area myself, and have family who saw and experienced this epidemic first hand. However, whatever real-life connections I might have to th