Audiences love Prometheus Bound at the A.R.T.: “A really intense show.” “Awesome… Impressive… You’re right there in the middle of everything… Pretty freaking amazing.”
Scenes from the new rock musical Prometheus Bound, now playing at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, February 25 – April 2, 2011. Music composed by Grammy Award-winning System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian, with script and lyrics by Grammy Award winner Steven Sater (Spring Awakening).
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An outcry against tyranny, Prometheus Bound illustrates one man’s struggle against the brute force of a ruthless dictator. Written by Tony and Grammy Award-winning lyricist and playwright Steven Sater (Spring Awakening) with music composed by Grammy Award-winning System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian, this new musical is inspired by Aeschylus’s ancient Greek tragedy about the suffering of Western civilization’s first prisoner of conscience. A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus stages this world premiere production in OBERON, immersing the audience in an environment that has the Dionysian energy and rebelliousness of a rock concert.
