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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Score for song, "Ode to Fiberoptics and Light" composed by Stefan Weisman

An adaptation of the first play in the Orestia trilogy by Aeschylus. Agamemnon ---the play on which Agamemnon-Re is based---- begins with the homecoming of the Greek king of that name. After years of bloody conflict, he returns victorious to his home in Greece. The chorus (citizens of his city) awaits his return with joy, but his wife, Clytemnestra, does not. She seeks revenge against her husband for his murder of their child Iphegeneia as a sacrificial offering to the gods. She lures him and his unwilling mistress Cassandra into the house where she stabs them to death. Agamemnon-re though faithful to the original story, adds some fascinating divergences. It's setting is a war-torn country where a chorus of embedded journalists (led by the veteran correspondent Rosy Fingered Dawn) are covering the return of the king. The gods, called upon but never seen in the original, move through the landscape unseen by the mortals around them, killing indiscriminately-true gods of chance. Apollo works hard to destroy Cassandra, once his greatest prophet, Artemis cuts down inconvenient mortals, and Impartial Hermes avoids any responsibility in the action. Rather than a chorus of Greek citizens, for whom the events directly effect their fortunes, the journalists begin by reporting on events that seem separate from their lives but in which, as the play continues, they become increasingly invested, as journalists do. Their lives hang in the balance as surely as the combatants' do. The play shows the interconnectedness of all people in war: the losses suffered both at home and abroad, and the fragility of civilization. Aeschelus' Oresteia was a movement from chaotic vengeance into order and law. By singling out only the first step of this process, Agamemnon-re offers a look at the downfall of arms without offering an immediate resolution. There is hope that these people may one day reach justice, but that day is not here yet.

HERE Arts Center

2001

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Original Score composed by: Stefan Weisman

A documentarian lost in an inner loop of an abandoned track of a sub-sub-sub atomic level of the New York Subway system encounters. Two MTA track workers who lead him to a gatekeeper named Lucy and her grandfather, who are engineering a particle acellerator. A string explains string theory as a Calabi-Yau tells the story of Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian knot

HERE Arts Center

1999

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Play/Drama

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2

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Original Score composed by: Stefan Weisman

An "explornographer" (a contemporary explorer who seeks adventure in a world that has already been mapped) races to the North Pole for New Year's Eve 200, pursued by the mischievous Y2K Bug. Historical figures Lief Ericsson and Lady Jane Franklin are portrayed by the adventurer on her polar trek, tracing a line of exploration from ancient Vikings through Victorians to our postmodern age of explornography. As the clock strikes midnight on the new millennium, the explornographer makes her final fatal stab for the North Pole, while the bug threatens to destroy the technological world

HERE Arts Center

2002

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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No human roles in this play. Actors will all be playing architectural or historical icons. A bull and a bear wander through dust-covered lower Manhattan at night, and statue and a bridge reflect on the recent past. Story of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks against the United States told from the perspective of New York's architectural icons.