Tennyson: The Cup
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is best known as one of the most popular 19th century British poets, the author of famous pieces such as "Ulysses," "Crossing the Bar," and his multi-part treatment of Arthurian legend, "The Idylls of the King." Like many poets before and after, however, he also turned his hand to poetic drama, somewhat in the vein of Shakespeare. Although some works of this kind by poets like Byron, Shelley, and Keats, were closet dramas, not meant to be staged, the majority of Tennyson\'s were indeed staged, and staged quite successfully. One of his shorter verse dramas, The Cup, retells an ancient story from the times of the rise of Rome as the supreme power in the ancient Mediterranean world: in this story, the Galatians (a Celtic people akin to the Gauls, but living in the interior of Asia Minor \\u2013 the area now known as Turkey) are coming to terms with Rome\'s rise \\u2013 by way of resistance or accomodation. The proud heroine Camma resists Roman encroachment in the person of the turncoat Galatian leader Synorix, but in the end her fate, and the fate of her people, is tragic.
\\nCREDITS
\\nNarrator: Alaina Pascarella
\\nSynorix: Aaron E. Sullivan
\\nSynnatus: James J. Loula
\\nCamma: Denise Yoder
\\nPhoebe: Joie Stoefen
\\nPriestess: Zoe Grabow
\\nChorus of Priestesses: Denise Yoder, Joie Stoefen, Alaina Pascarella, Zoe Grabow
\\nAttendant: Nathan Elgatian
\\nBoy: Josef Bodenbender
\\nMaid: Katie Phillips
\\nAntonius: Bryan Woods
\\nPublius: Steve Trainor
\\nNobleman: Michael Callahan
\\nMessenger: Jacob Lund
\\nDirector / Organizer / Sound Editor: Mischa Hooker
\\nSound Effects: Mike Koenig, Dominic Treis, BBC, and Mischa Hooker
\\nMusic for Tennyson: Brahms, Tragic Overture, opus 81 (performed by Czech National Symphony Orchestra)
\\nTheme music for program: Chopin, Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, no. 1 (performed by Olga Gurevich)
\\nOriginal Music: Denise Yoder, Mischa Hooker
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