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Meet Demeter, an exquisite statue of the Greek goddess, as she's being sculpted during the Italian Renaissance. Those who admire her see only stone and fortitude, but she has very real thoughts and desires. Fast-forward 500 years as Demeter finds herself in a present-day American city park, where she becomes a powerful symbol, an illicit landmark, a target. Witness to hilarious and horrible human foibles, she's desperate for someone, anyone to hear her thoughts. This world premiere introduces Huntington audiences to the irreverent and eccentric wit of Noah Haidle, a truly original voice in American theatre.
Provocative playwright Noah Haidle takes you behind the scenes of his outrageous new comedy Persephone, premiering at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company.
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Melinda Lopez is the playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company. Her one-woman show Mala won the 2017 Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play. Other plays include Becoming Cuba (2014) (Huntington Theatre Company), Back the Night (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Caroline in Jersey (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Orchids to Octopi (Central Square Theater, commissioned by the National Institutes of Health for the Darwin bicentennial), Gary (Steppenwolf First Look Repertory and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Alexandros (Laguna Playhouse), Midnight Sandwich/Medianoche (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Coconut Grove Playhouse), and multiple short plays.
Seth Fisher previously appeared in the Huntington's productions of Becky Shaw (2010), Persephone (2007), and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2006). His Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington.
Jeremiah Kissel previously appeared at the Huntington in Invisible Man (2013), A Month in the Country (2002), The Sisters Rosensweig (2005), and Sonia Flew (2004), among several others
Nicholas Martin (1938-2014) served as former Artistic Director of the Huntington from 2000 through 2008, where he directed Bus Stop, The Corn is Green, She Loves Me, Present Laughte with Victor Garbar, Sonia Flew, Butley with Nathan Lane, Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, and Dead End, among many others. His Broadway credits include Christopher Durang’s smash hit Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Present Laughter...
Ben Stanton previously designed lighting for The Atheist (2007), Persephone (2007) and Love's Labour's Lost (2006) at the Huntington.