Persians/Cyclops 2022

The production in October 2022 was a double bill: Aeschylus’s tragedy The Persians and Euripides’ satyr play The Cyclops. Cyclops is the only surviving satyr play and very rarely performed.

Following the success of 2019’s Oedipus at Colonus, the same creative team led by Director Dan Goldman presented an exciting double bill: the earliest surviving Greek tragedy Persians by Aeschylus and the only remaining satyr play Cyclops by Euripides. 

While Persians draws on recent Greek history and Cyclops derives from the well-known episode in Homer’s Odyssey, both plays present an outsider as the central character. Can those we consider monsters become the object of our pity, if only we look at them closely enough?