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“Antigone bade her sister say no more. ‘Your choice was to live,’ she said, ‘mine to die.’” —Antigone, quoted by Edith Hamilton The LAVA Center and playwright/director Jan Maher are thrilled to announce a special collaboration to present Maher’s play Ismene in mid-September. The play features Freya Andromeda in the title role and Liza Manchester as Martha. Kiersten Samalis is stage manager/assistant director. Fans of the classic Greek tragedies may (or may not) remember Ismene as the sister of Antigone and daughter of Oedipus. Over the course of several plays penned by Greek tragedians, her parents and all three siblings die. But there is no record of Ismene’s death. In Maher’s play she has been wandering the earth looking for resolution. When she meets Martha, a shy, journal-keeping woman, she is finally able to tell her own story in her own terms. Ismene debuted in Seattle where A. J. Mell in the Seattle Weekly characterized it as “Probing, sensitive, and accessible… rife with lyricism and unexpected humor.” Ken Freehill of Actors Equity Association called it “a brilliant script,” saying he was “thrilled to have been part of the audience.” This production of Ismene is part of LAVA’s year-end fundraising campaign.…

“Antigone bade her sister say no more. ‘Your choice was to live,’ she said, ‘mine to die.’” —Antigone, quoted by Edith Hamilton The LAVA Center and playwright/director Jan Maher are thrilled to announce a special collaboration to present Maher’s play Ismene in mid-September. The play features Freya Andromeda in the title role and Liza Manchester as Martha. Kiersten Samalis is stage manager/assistant director. Fans of the classic Greek tragedies may (or may not) remember Ismene as the sister of Antigone and daughter of Oedipus. Over the course of several plays penned by Greek tragedians, her parents and all three siblings die. But there is no record of Ismene’s death. In Maher’s play she has been wandering the earth looking for resolution. When she meets Martha, a shy, journal-keeping woman, she is finally able to tell her own story in her own terms. Ismene debuted in Seattle where A. J. Mell in the Seattle Weekly characterized it as “Probing, sensitive, and accessible… rife with lyricism and unexpected humor.” Ken Freehill of Actors Equity Association called it “a brilliant script,” saying he was “thrilled to have been part of the audience.” This production of Ismene is part of LAVA’s year-end fundraising campaign.…

“Antigone bade her sister say no more. ‘Your choice was to live,’ she said, ‘mine to die.’” —Antigone, quoted by Edith Hamilton The LAVA Center and playwright/director Jan Maher are thrilled to announce a special collaboration to present Maher’s play Ismene in mid-September. The play features Freya Andromeda in the title role and Liza Manchester as Martha. Kiersten Samalis is stage manager/assistant director. Fans of the classic Greek tragedies may (or may not) remember Ismene as the sister of Antigone and daughter of Oedipus. Over the course of several plays penned by Greek tragedians, her parents and all three siblings die. But there is no record of Ismene’s death. In Maher’s play she has been wandering the earth looking for resolution. When she meets Martha, a shy, journal-keeping woman, she is finally able to tell her own story in her own terms. Ismene debuted in Seattle where A. J. Mell in the Seattle Weekly characterized it as “Probing, sensitive, and accessible… rife with lyricism and unexpected humor.” Ken Freehill of Actors Equity Association called it “a brilliant script,” saying he was “thrilled to have been part of the audience.” This production of Ismene is part of LAVA’s year-end fundraising campaign.…