The Maenads is a new play written by Stephen Folgia that explores gender and masculine stereotypes as five men survive a psychedelic trip gone wrong and the harsh mountain wilderness. Costumes played the main role of grounding the characters with down to earth designs to heighten the kaleidoscopic scenery.

Director: Phillip Christian Smith

Playwright: Stephen Foglia

Costume Design: KT Farmer

Set Design: Dedalus Wainwright

Lighting Design: Annie Garrett-Larsen

Sound Design: Eamon Goodman

Projection Designers: John Horzen & Christian Killada

Production Photography: Lyle Dickie

“When Stewart, an emotionally hidden academic, puts his divorced uncle, a sensitive colleague, that colleagueʼs fratty friend, and a strange pickleball partner through the paces of choral chant, invocations, and mock dismemberments, at first nothing but the wine seems to have much effect.

But when a role-play pushes the men to absurd lengths, they soon discover they have no idea how to get off the mountain.

Desperate to survive but equally desperate not to leave the mountain unchanged, they are forced to confront the lies and fears that drove them to this performance of ecstatic femininity in the first place.” — www.themaenadsplay.com