2007 Season - Genesius Guild

All of the guild’s plays this summer have literary antecedants. Both of Shakespeare’s plays (“As You Like It” and “The Winter’s Tale”) were taken from pastoral works by Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, respectively, Euripides’ “Medea” was a familiar work in Athens and had been told in Pindar’s 4th Pythian Ode before Euripides’ drama was staged in 431 B.C.E. Aristophanes’ comedy, “The Frogs” is a farcical literary critique of works by Aeschylus and Euripides, both of whom had died, bringing to a close Athens’ golden period of tragedy.

May 27 (1pm), May 29 (7pm), May 31 (7pm), June 2 (1pm), June 3 (1pm)
Tryouts in Lincoln Park

June 9, 10, 16, 17
Gilbert & Sullivan: “Patience” featuring Opera@Augustana ~ Photos ~ Program

June 23, 24, 30and July 1
Shakespeare: “As You Like It” ~ Photos 1 ~ Photos 2 ~ Photos 3 ~ Program

July 7, 8, 14, 15
Euripides: "Medea" ~ Photos 1 ~ Photos 2 ~ Program

July 21, 22, 28, 29
Shakespeare: "The Winter's Tale" ~ Photos 1 ~ Photos 2 ~ Photos 3 ~ Program

August 4, 5, 11, 12
Aristophanes: "The Frogs " ~Photos 1 ~ Photos 2 ~ Photos 3 ~ Program

August 17, 18, 19
Ballet Under the Stars featuring Ballet Quad Cities