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Thespis
Physical CD
Description
Physical copy of GaSLOCoLI’S 2014 production of Thespis, or the Gods Grown Old.
Featuring new music by Emmy Award winning composer Thomas Zachary Shepard. Directed by David Groeger and conducted by Matthew Kasper.
Cost: $20
Currently Available: 25
The story concerns a troupe of actors who climb Mount Olympus on a picnic and discover the Roman gods, grown old and ineffectual. The actors agree to take over matters on Olympus while the gods go down to mingle with ordinary mortals to learn what they (the gods) can do to regain their old influence and prestige. Upon their return a year later the gods discover that the thespians, in their impractical way, have made a botch of things. They have, for example, given the Athenians a foggy Friday in November for six months–– and now propose to make up for it with “a blazing Tuesday in July for the next twelve.” Jupiter, in his wrath, sends the thespians back to earth and condemns them all to become “eminent tragedians, whom no one ever goes to see.”
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