Suppliants

American Thymele Theatre's tenth annual New York Euripides Summer Festival travels to three outdoor locations (and one indoor one) to perform Euripides' rarely seen ancient Greek political tragedy, which concerns the lamentations of women over the unburied dead in the aftermath of an attack on Thebes—a subject addressed from a different angle in Sophocles' better-known Antigone. Samantha Muster directs a cast of 16.