Witness the world premiere of this lush feast of a drama.

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Phryne, Queen of Athens, is a striking and inventive character study of the most influential courtesan of Ancient Greece. Best known for her famous trial, the illustrious priestess of Aphrodite captivated the denizens of Athens with her beauty, wit, and devotion to the vulnerable. The audience meets the play's titular character at the precipice of wild celebrity, immediately before she is immortalized by the sculptor Praxiteles in the still-famed statue, Aphrodite of Knidos. As her love for her longtime paramour and renowned orator Hypereides is challenged by the fresh desire of the influential Euthias, Phryne battles betrayal and suffocating mores in her struggle to maintain her faith in the goddess who once lifted her high.

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Please note this production contains nudity, intimacy, and depictions of violence.

 

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Dramatis Personae:

PHRYNE - Gillian Britt*

HYPEREIDES, HER LOVER - Brian Mendoza

EUTHIAS, A WEALTHY ORATOR - Paul Jackson

MYRRHINE, A PRIESTESS - Aubree Dixon

PHILA, A FRIEND - Caroline Digan

BASILEUS, A JUDGE - Shane Nielson

PRAXITELES, AN ARTIST - Jacob Dysart

IMAGE - Lucia Marshall

VOICE - Joseph Ruddleston

KING, A LECHER - Jeremy Lambert

CHORUS - Jules Geiss*, Camryn Graves, Alex Hartofelis, Ivan Cecil Walks



Production Team:

DIRECTOR - Madelyn Stewich

PRODUCERS - Gillian Britt & Joshua Koehn

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER - Izzy Ochocki

STAGE MANAGER - Isabella Iorio

COSTUME DESIGNER - Cynthia Johnson

CHOREOGRAPHER - Aubrie' Knapp

ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER & DANCE CAPTAIN - Jules Geiss

COMPOSER & MUSICIAN - Joseph Ruddleston

INTIMACY DIRECTOR - Jackie McCarthy

FIGHT DIRECTOR - Jim Grant

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER - Izzy Ochocki



Poster design by Leigha Pauly @leighaantonia_

Video shot and edited by Larry Rawdon



The Stag and Lion Theatre, in the words of its founder, brings a long lost style back to theatre. In the old days, before the 20th century, the theatre was vibrant with a life between actor and audience, between their reality and ours. We do not think the audience should be regulated to sitting like good boys and girls in the dark, but to be in our world with us. Our stage is wooden, our amber lights make it glow, and you will be transported back in time to a theatre experience like no other. 

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*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.