Artifacts, Deities and Theater at Penn Museum Media Contact:Jeanne Leong | | 215-573-8151April 29, 2016 What better place to stage a 2,500-year-old Greek play than amidst ancient artifacts, many depicting mythological figures and deities? That was the idea behind the imaginative spring production of “The Eumenides” at . "One of the ways that I was thinking about this ancient Greek play was in terms of its relationship to history,” says Marcia Ferguson, director of “The Eumenides” and of Penn’s Theatre Arts Program. “We have the Penn Museum, this amazing resource on campus, and I reached out to them.” “The Eumenides” is the third play in Aeschulyus’ tragic trilogy, “The Oresteia.” In it, Orestes faces the consequences of murdering his mother, Clytemnestra, wife and murderer of his father, A
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