Name: The Frogs
Start: 2022-03-11T19:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-16
Location: O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

The Frogs

Drama at University of Galway

The Frogs presented and produced by the third year students of NUIGalway under the direction of Marianne Kennedy.

O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

Drama and Theatre Studies staff and students, working alongside artists and scholars such as Ella Day (costume advisor), James Riordan (physical theatre advisor) and Dr. Peter Kelly from Classics (dramaturgical advice) give us a contemporary take on the hugely successful Ancient Greek comedy The Frogs by Aristophanes. This translations of The Frogs is by Kenneth McLeish, Scottish born writer, playwright and translator. It is presented by the third year Drama students of NUIGalway under the direction of Marianne Kennedy and production and technical and production management expertise of Mike O&#x27;Halloran and is designed by the students themselves.The Frogs follows Dionysus (god of wine vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and art), who is despairing at the state of the playwrights on Earth, travels to the underworld to bring back Euripides from the dead. When he gets there however he questions whether Euripides with his wit and bold talk is indeed the brave artist he seeks or is there another artist best placed to boost the morale of the Athenians and their war-torn city?At the heart of this play are the questions: What is the function of Art? Can it uplift? Should it inspire? Should it speak to the everyday experience? What is the worth of art in times or crisis?This comedic and epic adventure transposes the action of this ancient play to the social and political context of Ireland today.

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