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Student: Mercy Mondt
Research Mentor: Tom Fish and Margaret Baldwin Pendergrass
Tuesday, April 18 — 3 p.m.
Mercy Mondt’s experience studying Greek Theatre in Greece inspired her project focusing on women in Greek theater. The more she learned about it, the more she fell in love with how the artform and how it engaged with difficult questions. However, she also grew frustrated with the way it presented women.
“Every depiction of women from Ancient Greece that we have today is filtered through a man's perspective,” Mondst said. “These stories about women were put into plays authored by men, which were performed by men, to an audience of only men. At no point were women given the opportunity to comment on or critique how they were being presented.”
Greek Girls was written and directed by Mercy Mondt and combines classic scenes from Greek Theatre with a chorus of the Muses commenting on their actions. With the help of faculty advisors and the cast, Mondt wants to tell important, compelling, and beautiful women’s stories.
Mondt is an undergraduate student majoring in theater and performance studies.
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