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In his Metamorphoses Ovid describes the devout couple Deucalion and Pyrrha praying to Themis, goddess of justice, after they have been saved from the deluge sent by Jupiter. With its pronounced foreshortenings seen from below, its compelling sculptural quality, and its powerful dynamics, the cycle of 16 ceiling paintings from which this panel comes showed an advance in the quality of Tintoretto's work, and indeed of Venetian ceiling painting in general.
Cassandra Alexandra
Birthplace: Athens, Ottoman Empire ( Greece)
Birthdate :July 20, 1570
Age :21 ( II- IV)
Height: (164cm)
Blood type B
Weapon:Sword and Shield
Family Father: Achelous
Mother: Nike (deceased)
Older sister: Sophitia (deceased)
Younger brother: Lucius
Brother-in-Law: Rothion (deceased)
Nephew: Patroklos
Niece: Pyrrha
Thomas Wesson '09 as Admetos, confronts mortality with Marielle Vigneau-Britt '10 as Alcestis; Kevin Chambers '09 plays Hercules; and Tim Fox '11 appears as Death.
Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of Alcestis, Euripides' tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in his place. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, March 6, 7, 13 and 14, and at 2 p.m. Sundays, March 8 and 15, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St.
Costume designs by alicia Oas '09 for "Alcestis" are presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of an Honors Thesis in Theater.
Setting: A courtyard before the palace of Admetos in Thessaly.
Other cast members:
Chorus 1: Briget Brewer '11
Chorus 2: Drew Gallagher '11
Chorus 3: Alina Volobuyeva '11
Chorus 4: Schuyler Rooth '11
Chours 5: Caroline Servat '10
Maid in the palace of Admetos: Caroline Servat '10
Iolaus, attendant to Hercules: Samuel Schleipman '12
Pheres, Father of Admetos: Ru Hasanov '09
Pyrrha, Mother of Admetos: Rachel Garbowski '09
Servant in the palce of Admetos: Derek Rocchini '11