KWLT - The Penelopiad - 100919
This gallery is a visual documentary of a theatrical performance
including a number of simulated acts of rape, violence and death.
Viewers sensitive to such imagery should proceed with caution.
Jessica Clayman as Penelope.
Jessica Clayman.
Young maids' slumber party.
Young maids' slumber party.
The oracle (Susan St. John).
Maids longing for rich suitors.
Penelope prepares to meet her suitors.
Suitors for young Penelope arrive.
Odysseus easily bests them all.
Odysseus (Stephanie Hill).
A great celebration as the two are united.
Odysseus urges Penelope to "scream" so they will be left in peace on their wedding night.
True affection builds between Odysseus (Stephanie Hill) and Penelope (Jessica Clayman).
Stephanie Hill & Jessica Clayman.
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Penelope is presented to Odysseus's royal family back home in Ithaca.
Erin Moffat and Melanie Card.
Waiting for the birth of Telemachus.
The infant Telemachus is swept away to be cared for by a nursemaid.
Penelope finds the situation difficult; Odysseus is called away to Troy once again.
Penelope and three of her maids.
Young Telemachus does not prefer the company of his birth mother.
Maids regaling Penelope with news of the fall of Troy.
Jessica Clayman as Penelope.
Maids singing of the exploits of Odysseus.
Maids singing of the exploits of Odysseus.
Penelope sees Helen of Troy, and her suitors, in a vision.
Presuming Odysseus dead, new suitors relentlessly pursue Penelope.
The suitors make themselves free with Penelope's maids.
Weaving.
Penelope and the maids.
At night, Penelope and the maids work together to unravel the previous day's work on Odysseus' burial shroud.
The suitors force themselves on the maids.
The suitors force themselves on the maids.
The maids, devastated.
Melanie Card & Adrienne Steer.
Penelope confronts Eurycleia about the treatment of her maids.
Penelope entreats an adolescent Telemachus to help her keep the household under control.
The daily weaving, and nightly unraveling, continues.
Penelope is confronted -- the suitors are on to her delaying tactics.
Penelope appeals to the gods.
Eurycleia gives Penelope a sleeping draught...
... and Penelope has dreams and visions.
Dreams and visions surround Penelope's drugged sleep.
Odysseus returns, in disguise.
The suitors mock the disguised Odysseus.
Penelope, not recognizing Odysseus, nevertheless treats the poorly dressed guest properly.
Odysseus is the only one who can string and wield his own bow; the suitors are baffled by this feat performed by a ratty stranger.