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The Metamorphosis

By Kafka adapted

Starts October 25-30 2010

Information info@etnyarts.org 646-733-7685

The Picture of Dorian Gray March 2010

Adapted by Barbara Bregstein

Can a painting of a person tell you more about him than the person's own face?

If it is painted with love, perhaps the painting will show more than just the outside of that person - perhaps will it show the inside.

This is the story of a strikingly beautiful young man named Dorian who arrives in Victorian London and is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Henry Wotton, who introduces Dorian to the hedonistic pleasures of the city.

When a portrait of Dorian is unveiled, such is its beauty that he makes a pledge: he would give anything to stay as he is in the picture – even his soul. “Dorian Gray” examines the destructive power of beauty, the blind pursuit of pleasure and the darkness that can result.

Garth @ Dark Horizons

Performances at WINGS THEATER 154 Christopher Street, NYC.

March 2009

The death of Socrates, Jaques-Louis David, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

SOCRATES ON TRIAL By Barbara Bregstein

ETNY Theater Company presents SOCRATES ON TRIAL, its original and faithful adaptation of five Plato dialogues, Gorgias, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo, set in ancient Greece in 399 B.C. the day of Socrates' trial. The audience becomes the Athenian Assembly and votes on Socrates' guilt or innocence. Within the dramatic context of the story of Socrates' trial and imprisonment, many issues emerge: the historical moment in Greece; the question of whether it is worse to do wrong or suffer wrong; the theory of natural right; the social contract between the individual and the state; the value of searching for truth through questioning; the importance of excellence; the power of prejudice; and the journey of the soul after death. With Peter Cory as Socrates.