Greek Tragedy, Based on Non-Ancient Texts (of Weiner) Oedipus. Othello. Weiner? The strange summer of Anthony D. Weiner is about to have its curtain call: "The Weiner Monologues," a play that imagines the erstwhile congressman and mayoral candidate as a tragic hero of the stage, will make its Off Off Broadway debut next month. It is of some debate whether Mr. Weiner's swing-and-a-miss comeback attempt would qualify as tragic or comic. Perhaps a bit of both. And sultry text messages may be on a different moral plane from more tangible crimes like patricide. But there is no question that the Weiner saga makes for good, old-fashioned drama, and a troupe of recent Hunter College graduates has not let the theatrical possibilities go to waste. "It's not a typical Aristotelian tragedy," said Jonathan Harper Schlieman, the director of the show, which carries a cumbersome, 25-word subtitle that identifies it as "a devised Greek tragedy composed of found texts." Those texts are not just of the smartphone sort. The script, a partially improvised series of vignettes overseen by Mr. Schlieman, 27, and a collaborator, John Oros, 23, is pieced together entirely from real-life speeches, talk-show monologue jokes, newspaper articles, and transcripts of the explicit, occasionally wince-inducing messages that Mr. Weiner exchanged with women he met online. In a reversal of typical theater protocol, audience members will be urged to leave on their smartphones during the performance, so that text messages - and, yes, a graphic photo or two - can be broadcast directly to their devices. First staged as a student production at Hunter in 2011, after Mr. Weiner's initial fall from grace, the show was revived this year when its creators found inspiration in the candidate's more recent troubles. "The Carlos Danger stuff was too good to leave out," Mr. Schlieman explained. Narrated by a Greek chorus led by an actor playing Marilyn Monroe, the show will be performed at Access Theater on Lower Broadway, with the premiere set for Nov. 6, the night after Election Day, when Mr. Weiner had hoped to be delivering a victory speech. "It explores the tension between what is private and what is public in this day and age," Mr. Schlieman said. A sex scandal is a great point of entry into that. In one scene, zingers taken from "The Tonight Show" are recited onstage as the Weiner character is surrounded by bullies, evoking a schoolyard confrontation. There are imagined cameos by James E. McGreevey and Eliot Spitzer, the former governors of New Jersey and New York, who were also felled by sexual indiscretion. The concept emerged from a summer theater workshop at Hunter. "We loosely modeled it after a Greek tragedy," Mr. Schlieman said, adding: "Very loosely." He and his collaborators have had no contact with the real-life inspiration for their work, and it was unclear whether Mr. Weiner would attend. Contacted on Monday about "The Weiner Monologues," the eponymous politician, who has been seldom seen in public since his loss in the Democratic primary, had little to say. "Never heard of it," Mr. Weiner wrote in a text message.