Amalgamemnon

A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue.

History and literature seem to be losing ground to the brave new world of electronic media and technology, and battle lines are being drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third world, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases those boundaries in her punning monologue, blurring the texts of Herodotus with the callers to a talk-radio pr...