Annie Garrett-Larsen
Lighting Design

THE MAENADS

By Stephen Foglia

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The Tank​

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Directed by Phillip Christian Smith

Scenic Design: Dedalus Wainwright

Costume Design: KT Farmer

Lighting Design: Annie Garrett-Larsen

Sound Design: Eamon Goodman

Projection Design: John Horzen & Christian William

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Five men climb a mountain to cosplay as the maenads, the ancient followers of Dionysus. When Stewart, an emotionally hidden academic, puts his divorced uncle, a sensitive colleague, that colleagueʼs fratty friend, and a strange pickleball partner through the paces of choral chant, invocations, and mock dismemberments, at first nothing but the wine seems to have much effect.

But when a role-play pushes the men to absurd lengths, they soon discover they have no idea how to get off the mountain. Desperate to survive but equally desperate not to leave the mountain unchanged, they are forced to confront the lies and fears that drove them to this performance of ecstatic femininity in the first place.

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Production Photos by Lyle Dickie