ETNY Theater Company

Socrates

The death of Socrates, Jaques-Louis David, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

ETNY Theater Company presents SOCRATES ON TRIAL, its original and faithful adaptation of  five Plato dialogues, Gorgias, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo, set in ancient Greece in 399 B.C. the day of Socrates' trial.  The audience becomes the Athenian Assembly and votes on Socrates' guilt or innocence.  Within the dramatic context of the story of Socrates' trial and imprisonment, many issues emerge: the historical moment in Greece; the question of whether it is worse to do wrong or suffer wrong; the theory of natural right; the social contract between the individual and the state; the value of searching for truth through questioning; the importance of excellence; the power of prejudice; and the journey of the soul after death.  With  Peter Cory  as Socrates.

Performances at WINGS THEATRE 154 Christopher Street,  NYC

• From Socrates on Trial

   

  • "It takes true goodness to make a man or a woman happy, and an immoral, wicked person is unhappy."  from Gorgias
  • "My love of people makes me talk to everyone I meet quite freely and unreservedly, and without payment. Indeed, if I could, I would pay people myself to listen to me." from 'Euthyphro.'
  • "I do not think I know what I do not know." from the 'Apology.'
  • ".. And I tell you that no greater good can happen to a man that to discuss human excellence everyday, knowing that an unexamined life is not worth living." from the  'Apology.'
  • "I will not repay injustice with injustice. I will go away victim of injustice, not of the laws, but of men." Socrates in 'Crito.'

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