The Fre

This is an All-Ages play. What this means specifically is that ages 12 to adult see the entire play but ages 6 to 11 come to the theater earlier in the day, learn a very simple call and response song and even easier staging, enter the world of the play at a certain point (dressed like frogs) and act as the plays extras for roughly 20 minutes of the play. They then exit, have snacks and come back at the end of the play to play on the set.

The play is part of Mac's Kothornos Festival (four plays that will be produced separately but at some point in the future be performed in an all-day festival mirrored after the Greek Dionysia). It is written in the form of Old Comedy. It is the story of an intellectual aesthete, who is trapped inside a mud pit in the middle of a swamp, and his desperate attempt at escaping the swamp's fatuous inhabitants who call themselves, the Fre.