The Getty’s Theater Lab Presents Thieves of California, a Futuristic Retelling of Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes

The Getty Villa Theater Lab will premiere Thieves of California, a new play inspired by Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes and set in a near-future dystopian California, for one weekend only, Nov. 15–16.

The work-in-progress production, written by Los Angeles-based playwright Boni B. Alvarez and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, will be performed on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 3:00 p.m. and 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 3:00 p.m. Admission is free with advance reservations available online. The project is co-produced by Playwrights’ Arena, which has a long history of collaboration with the Getty Villa on contemporary adaptations of classical works.

The year is 2031. California

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