/unews/person/drama en /unews/article/flavours-ancient-greece-tantalize-audiences-exia <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>Sink your teeth into one of the juiciest dramas of the Drama Main Stage season. Spicy, sensual and tantalizing, Exia, written by Governor General Literary Award nominee and Theatre and Dramatic Arts faculty, Meg Braem, promises to satisfy all audience appetites.<div class="image-caption-container right" style="width:400px;"><img src="/unews/sites/default/files/Exia2.jpg" title="Exia, by Meg Braem, plays at 8 p.m. nightly in the 免费福利资源在线看片 Theatre, Nov. 19-23." alt=""><div class="image-caption">Exia, by Meg Braem, plays at 8 p.m. nightly in the 免费福利资源在线看片 Theatre, Nov. 19-23.</div></div></p><p>Playing Nov. 19-23 in the 免费福利资源在线看片 Theatre at 8 p.m. nightly, this premier production transports patrons to a sumptuous scene in Ancient Greece. Chrysothemis and Elektra have returned home to discover their father, King Agamemnon, murdered by their anorexic and withdrawn mother. Through the power and fragrance of her gastronomical talents, Chrysothemis attempts to bring her family back together.</p><p>&ldquo;Exia is about murder and revenge, but it&rsquo;s also about young love. And although it&rsquo;s based in the tradition of Ancient Greece, is very contemporary &ndash; very sensual and touching,&rdquo; says Gail Hanrahan, director.</p><p>Shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General&rsquo;s Literary Award for Drama for her play, <em>Blood: A Scientific Romance</em>, playwright Meg Braem gives credit to the students in her Canadian Plays and Development class two years ago for helping develop Exia.</p><p>&ldquo;This play is truly built out of the university, and incorporates the voices of our students,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;It is about youthful characters and incorporates the themes and beauty of young love. It was through the work done in class with our students that we captured that spirit in the script.&rdquo;</p><p>Exia, derived from the word orexis, or appetite, promises to satiate audiences with a feast promising to enthrall, excite and thrill.</p><p>Tickets are available at the 免费福利资源在线看片 Box Office (Monday to Friday, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., 403-329-2616). Tickets are priced at $18 regular, $15 senior, $12 students and are also available for purchase online: <a href="http://uleth.ca/tickets" rel="nofollow">uleth.ca/tickets</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-group-format group_related_topics field-group-div group-related-topics block-title-body speed-fast effect-none"><h2><span>Related Topics</span></h2><div class="field field-name-opencalais-company-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Company:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/company/faculty-fine-arts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Faculty of Fine Arts</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-facility-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Facility:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/facility/university-theatre" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">免费福利资源在线看片 Theatre</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/meg-braem" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Meg Braem</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/drama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Drama</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/gail-hanrahan" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Gail Hanrahan</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="Flavours of ancient Greece to tantalize audiences of Exia" class="rdf-meta"></span> Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:40:28 +0000 trevor.kenney 5784 at /unews