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Gallery of Student/Faculty Work
Frogs, Ancient studies students
Frogs began thanks to the vision of
director/producer Steve Killen, a senior ancient studies major and president of
the Ancient Studies Club. "I often walked
by the hillside and thought how it would make a perfect natural theatre for an
authentic Greek drama," Killen said. "We've worked very hard to make the production
as close as possible to how it was performed 2,500 years ago." While the production
included some theatre majors and received advice from UMBC theatre faculty members,
the idea behind Frogs was to be an independent, all-volunteer labor of love
created entirely by students from a cross-section of majors. The real labor came over
vacation as many of the crew and cast spent their vacation making the play their
own by working two hours a day, three days a week on a unique translation
from Greek to English with the help of associate professor of ancient studies Jay Freyman.
The play was performed in the Spring to an enthusiastic audience on the hillside above the pond, just as Killen had imagined it.