[Capdist-announce] Saratoga Springs’ All-Teen Ad Astra Theatre Troupe Performing Original Adaption of “Trojan Women”

[Ad Astra Theatre Troupe]

*For Immediate Release*

Contact:                  *Grace Zofia Alberti*, Executive Director, Ad
Astra Theatre Troupe, Ltd. (adastratroupe at gmail.com or 518-423-9177)

*Saratoga Springs’ All-Teen Ad Astra Theatre Troupe Performing Original
Adaption of “Trojan Women” *

*at the Janet Kinghorn Bernard Theater, Skidmore College*

Ad Astra Theatre Troupe Ltd. presents an original adaptation of
Euripides’ *Trojan
Women*, penned by teenage playwrights Padraig Bond and Catie LeCours.
Padraig Bond will be directing the play. The play received a generous grant
from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust for Ad Astra’s third season.

Show times are Friday, May 17th at 7 PM, and Sunday, May 19th at 2 PM and
7pm at the Janet Kinghorn Bernard Theater at Skidmore College, 815 N
Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY. Tickets are $15. Students and senior
citizens 62 and older have a discounted ticket price of $8.

Ad Astra Theatre Troupe is all about empowering local teenagers to make a
meaningful contribution to their community through the arts.  Ad Astra’s
choice of *Trojan Women* is important because it highlights the impact of
war on non-combatants, which is as timely a topic today as it was in
ancient times. Ad Astra hopes that its production will inspire young people
to consider current world events in a fresh light.

Playwright and director, Padraig Bond, is a senior at Saratoga Springs High
School. Playwright, Catie LeCours, is a freshman at Skidmore College. Stage
Manager, Grace Billok, is a senior at Saratoga Springs High School.
Producer, Grace Alberti, is the founder and executive director of Ad Astra
Theatre Troupe and a senior at Saratoga Springs High School. Poster Artist,
Tess Davidson-Brown, is a senior at Saratoga Springs High School.
As Astra Theatre Troupe is a non-profit student-run performance company
focusing on spreading education, confidence, and a sense of community
through the arts. They are unique because of their aim to enable local
high-school students through all forms of theatrical development, with new
opportunities in writing, direction, production, choreography, technical
and publicity direction, and stage management, with little to no cost to
families. Learn more at www.AdAstraTroupe.org
<http://www.adastratroupe.org/>.
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