Fw: Rage, Revenge, Reflection: Over 350 years old; a pla y of our time Milton’s Samson Agonistes

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Rage, Revenge, Reflection: Over 350 years old; a pla y of our time

Milton’s Samson Agonistes

Victory Gardens Crip Slam and the University of Notre Dame present:

Rage, Revenge, Reflection: Over 350 years old; a play of our time

Milton’s Samson Agonistes

Directed by Todd Bauer, Carolyn Demanelis and Belock

Performed by students from the Department of Film, Television and

Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

Sunday, November 20 | 7:30pm | $10

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave

Milton’s classic Samson Agonistes has the flavor of Greek tragedy, but

stars a Biblical hero. Rather than raging against the Olympian

deities, Samson calls upon the Christian God to save him. Samson

Agonistes is Milton’s exploration of his own blindness, which makes

this play one of the most enabling texts by an author with a

disability.

Samson’s feelings about the rehabilitation process after becoming

blind are real. He’s angry, scared, he feels alienated from God, but

he moves to a place where his fighting spirit is back. He achieves his

greatest act as a warrior not in spite of his disability, but because

of his disability.

Join our community conversation on Embracing Theater Arts and

Disability from the Past, Present and Future with

Todd Bauer, Newberry Library; Fallon and Essaka ,

University of Notre Dame

Sandahl, University of Illinois at Chicago; Mike Ervin, Crip

Slam, Victory Gardens Theater.

This event is accessible: Sign Language Interpreters and Audio

Description will be provided.

TICKETS:

victorygardens.org or call 773.871.3000 (TTY 773.871.0682)

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115566701886876

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Sandie Yi

Graduate Assistant

Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Arts and Culture

http://www.bodiesofworkchicago.org/

Ph D Student, Disability Studies and Human Development

University of Illinois at Chicago

E-mail: cyi9@...

Personal Artist's Website: http://cripcouture.org