Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

Big Love by Charles Mee

Friday, October 6, 2023

8:00 pm -

Big Love by Charles Mee
Directed by Brandon Weinbrenner

Fifty women have fled to a villa on the Italian coast to avoid having to marry fifty of their cousins in this modern adaptation of Aeschylus’ Greek tragedy The Suppliants. Big Love brings a contemporary (and comedic) sensibility to one of the oldest plays in the Western tradition. When the fifty would-be husbands arrive to claim their resistant brides, the women create a shocking plan to fend off the men’s full-on amorous onslaught and escape their ill-fated marriages.