Mostellaria By Plautus
Mostellaria By Plautus
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plautus’s Mostellaria ( The Haunted House) For the first time in the hallowed history of the event, the Department of Classical Studies and the Core Curriculum’s annual “Aristophanes” play was a Roman comedy: Plautus’ Mostellaria ( The Haunted House). 
It featured clever slaves, foolish young men, and prostitutes with complicated back-stories, getting mixed up in hair-brained schemes involving love, lust, living large and, yes, ghosts! While his father (Professor Jeff Henderson) is out of town, a young man (Paul Slater) spends all of his money on lavish parties and women. When his father suddenly returns, it is up to the crafty slave (Sarah Weiskittel) to come up with a scheme and save the day! Particularly exciting was the fact that this year’s play was produced in conjunction with the Roman Comedy course (CL 229).