Tag: Sarah Kirkland Snider

A Modern-Day Odysseus Returns Home from a War, with PTSD, in Ellen McLaughlin’s “Penelope”

PlayMakers will present "Penelope, a one-woman show written and performed by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Lisa Rothe, with music by Sarah Kirkland Snider, on April 25-29 in UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Dramatic Art

I must admit that I have never read Homer’s Odyssey, but I love the Coen Brothers’ film adaptation, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Maybe that sentiment cheapens the structure and framework of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s world-premiere production of playwright and performer Ellen McLaughlin’s vivid and entrancing new work, Penelope, now playing in the Elizabeth… Continue reading A Modern-Day Odysseus Returns Home from a War, with PTSD, in Ellen McLaughlin’s “Penelope”

“Penelope,” a New Play Written and Performed by Ellen McLaughlin, Will Premiere at PlayMakers Rep

"Penelope" playwright and performer Ellen McLaughlin will share the stage with a string quartet (PRC photo by Andrea Akin)

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the world premiere of “Penelope,” a new one-woman show written and performed by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Lisa Rothe, with music composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider for an onstage string quartet(!), on April 25-29 in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre at UNC-Chapel Hill.