Steven Sater, the legendary playwright behind Spring Awakening—winner of a Tony, Grammy, and Laurence Olivier Award—is going Babylonian. His next project is a retelling of the epic Gilgamesh, the 3,000-year-old story of a mighty king and his wild love for another man, which leads him to battle formidable monsters and to embark on a desperate quest for eternal life. Sater’s Gilgamesh is a vibrant and visceral version on the oldest poem in the literary canon. Join us at Stage Time Studios as Sater presents the first-ever sneak peak of his Gilgamesh. Sater is joined by Sophus Helle, a Princeton scholar and leading expert in Babylonian literature, whose book on Gilgamesh was hailed as “a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read” (Boston Globe) and “lively, earthy, and scrupulous in its scholarship” (New York Review of Books). Together, Sater and Helle will discuss queer epics, epic queers, Babylonian grief, Ishtar-fueled sex marathons, translational tricks and much more besides.