May Day Greek Plays

The Bryn Mawr Greek Play is a May Day tradition that has faded and been revived a number of times in its long history. The recent incarnations have taken the form of a parody of a classic play, written by the students with music borrowed from modern pop or show tunes. Since the 2002 revival of The Antagony, a parody of Sophocles' Antigone originally written in 1974, the tradition seems once again to be alive and well.

Previous Greek Plays

  • 2014 - Oedipus Holmes - The Man with the Twisted Foot
  • 2013 - Iphigenia at Aulis 
  • 2012 - Antigone
  • 2011 - The Bacchae
  • 2010 - Complex Electra
  • 2009 - Greeks on a Plain
  • 2008 - Oedipus Rex: Private Eye 
  • 2007 - Hippolytus MarkII
  • 2006 - Medea
  • 2005 - The Oddity (Homer's Odyssey)
  • 2004 - The Complete Works of Hdt. (abridged) (Herodotus' History)
  • 2003 - The Squirrels (Aristophanes' Frogs)
  • 2002 - The Antagony (revival of 1974 show)
  • 1994 - The Boston Bacchae (Euripides' Bacchae + Cheers)
  • 1993 - Bi-Co 19010 (Euripides' Medea + Beverly Hills 90210)
  • 1992 - A Very Brady May Day (Euripides' Hippolytus + Brady Bunch)
  • 1991 - [no title recorded] (Euripides' Phoinisssae + Dukes of Hazzard)
  • 1990 - The Search for Iphigeneia (Euripides' Iphigeneia at Tauris + Star Trek)
  • 1989 - Honey, I'm Home (Aeschylus' Agamemnon + Elvis)
  • 1988 - [no title recorded] (Euripides' Hippolytus + Love Boat)
  • 1987 - Ajax, the play not the soap (Sophocles' Ajax)
  • 1986 - Electra (Sophocles?)
  • 1985 - Oedipus Wrecked (Sophocles' Oedipus Rex)
  • 1984 - The Groupies (Euripides' Bacchae)
  • 1974 - The Antagony (Sophocles' Antigone)
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