On Stage

ARMS

by Lisa Sanaye Dring, translated by Meropi Papastergiou

Location: Zagorohoria Region, Ioannina, and Corinth, Greece
Date: August 2025

ARMS by Lisa Sanaye Dring is a new play written in response to Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. ARMS is an exploration of the connection between erotic and destructive impulses, and, like Aristophanes' original, a play whose main aim is to wage peace. It is interested in the central tenets of the original play: a desire for peace in those so low on options that they use their own bodies as a site of protest. But what might actually happen to people if they did this? What happens to a community forcibly deprived of eros-- instead of traipsing into a befuddled peace, might the ones waging war through violence move to more violence?

ARMS was commissioned by OYL for our 2025 Summer International Residency, and will be performed in August 2025 in three villages in northern Greece, an outdoor amphitheater in Ioannina, and at the archeological sites of ancient Corinth and Delphi. Performances will happen in English, Greek, Japanese, and Hindi by a cast of forty actors from across the USA, India, Japan, Turkey and Greece.

WAKE

by Leon Ingulsrud and Brooke Shilling

Location: NYC
Date: November 2025

WAKE by Leon Ingulsrud and Brooke Shilling is a lyrical, theatrical meditation on loss and the maddening beauty of being alive. In a magical kitchen where memory, grief, and absurdity collide, a woman mourning her mother’s death navigates the messy, beautiful, and sometimes hilarious process of letting go—with help from her sibling, a chorus of strange visitors, and the lingering scent of brisket.

WAKE was commissioned by OYL and is set to premiere in NYC in November 2025.

Euripides’
Medea

adapted by Meropi Papastergiou

Location: TBD
Date: TBD

OYL’s production of Medea will feature Akiko Aizawa in the role of Medea, and Georgia Tsangaraki as the head of the chorus. The production examines Medea as a force, speaking to the primal need for revenge in a world out of balance. Here we see Medea as eternal mother, as earth shaker, as prophet, and as destroyer of all we hold holy.