On Stage
Arms
by Lisa Sanaye Dring, translated by Meropi Papastergiou
Location: Zagorohoria Region, Ioannina, and Corinth, Greece
Date: early August 2025
Arms is an exploration of the connection between erotic and destructive impulses, and, like Aristophanes' original, a play whose main aim is to wage peace.
OYL’s production will feature a 40+ member cast made up of the OYL 2025 Summer Company, who will perform the show in both Greek and English. It will be directed by Ianthe Demos, with movement direction by Natalie Lomonte.
OYL has hosted an annual creative residency in Greece since 2007.
WAKE
by Leon Ingulsrud and Brooke Shilling
Location: NYC
Date: October 2025
How do we grieve? How do we grieve together? In a contemporary landscape of doubt, confusion and division, two friends negotiate the timeless process of coming to terms with loss. The intensely private mixes with the excruciating and often comically public, while around them the world oscillates between comfort and nightmare.
Euripides’
Medea
adapted by Meropi Papastergiou
Location: TBD
Date: Spring 2025
OYL’s production of Medea will feature Akiko Aizawa in the role of Medea, and Georgia Tsangaraki as the head of the chorus. The production examines Medea as a force, speaking to the primal need for revenge in a world out of balance. Here we see Medea as eternal mother, as earth shaker, as prophet, and as destroyer of all we hold holy.
The following productions are not currently scheduled for a performance, but are available upon request:
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