quill & spine presents

All the Haints of Hades

By Mallory Main

Translated and Adapted from Seneca's Oedipus

All the Haints of Hades follows Eddie, the mayor of a small Appalachian town called Thebes, as he pursues the truth: what’s causing the town’s plague? His dogged quest leads him to reckon with granny witches, witness bloodcurdling necromantic divinations, and face the cruel twists of local politics. The play ends with a final, chilling revelation: Eddie himself brought death and devastation to Thebes by unknowingly killing his father Linus and marrying his mother Jo.

All the Haints of Hades is a part translation/part adaptation of Seneca the Younger's gruesome Oedipus, itself adapted from Sophocles' more well-known Oedipus Tyrannos. 

Quill & Spine is excited to present the first staged reading of All the Haints of Hades. All tickets are free!

Date/Time: 7:00 pm, October 16, 2026

Location: Leynse Studio - A.R.T. / New York, 520 8th Ave, 3rd Floor

All the Haints of Hades lasts approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

Cast & Crew:

EDDIE - Fraser Dickson

JO - Hilarie Spangler

SAMANTHA / CORA - Claudia Minor Troyer

CRAVEN / DENNIS - Christopher Cosmo

SOLOMON / FORBES - Martin Pfefferkorn

ANGEL / STAGE DIRECTIONS - R Fenstermacher

Director & Translator - Mallory Main

Stage Manager - Katie Kirk

Special Thanks:

Bronte Amoy, Treyton Blackburn, Alessandro Barchiesi, Hannah Cochran, David Christenson, Jonathan Hall, Theo Swinford, NYU's Department of Classics, University of Arizona's Department of Religious Studies and Classics, A.R.T. / New York

A note on the text:

The director/translator’s familial connection to Appalachia inspired this localized translation, which directly engages with regional stereotypes. Setting the Oedipus myth here is a deliberate inversion of those stereotypes: the discovery of incest in the play horrifies the entire community. All the Haints of Hades uses that inversion to subvert media portrayals of Appalachia as inherently isolated, fanatical, or violent.

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