Sailors abandoned in a storm, austerity measures, generals executed, protests and riots, a Spartan army ravaging the countryside, Apollo selling temples to the highest bidder, Greek debt worth 159 percent of GDP and skimming-off-the-top, tax-avoiding politicians. Who can possibly save Athens? A dead poet.

The Center for Creative Work at the University of Houston Honors College, along with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, present a laughable, outrageous look at the Greek world in crisis across the millennia in an adaptation of Aristophanes' Old Comedy The Frogs for Dionysia 2012 at the Rockwell Pavilion (April 26, 28-29), Fitzgerald's (April 30) and Khon's (May 1).

Adapted by John Harvey and directed by Aaron Landsman, artist in residence at the UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

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