City Garage Tucked away in the Fourth Street alley behind the Third Street Promenade lies one of Los Angeles County’s most exciting and daring the-atre companies — City Garage. Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe present incredibly challenging, smart and fascinating theatre. Their 2006 season is dedicated to Obie-award-winning playwright Charles L. Mee’s radical reworkings of three Greek tragedies: Agamemnon, The Bacchae, and Iphegenia. In Agememnon, Mee transforms the classic tragedy by Aeschylus into a haunting meditation on the struggles and strife of our own time. Agamemnon, returning victorious from a ruinous and misguided war, only to find that the one thing he has accomplished is the destruction of his own society and ultimately, of himself.
June 9-July 23 Reservations: (310) 319-9939 http://www.citygarage.org/Mee1.html 1340 1/2 Fourth St. alley, between the Third Street Promenade and Fourth Street, and between Santa Monica Boulevard and Arizona Avenue. There is convenient parking in the neighboring parking Structure No. 3, located on Fourth Street. Exit via the back stairs of structure. The theatre is to the left.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 9, 2006. Read the original PDF.