Since Aeschylus’ trilogy “Oresteia” isn’t long enough, Robert Icke’s new update gives it a prequel. What is merely talked about in “Agamemnon,” the first play in the trilogy, is now played out on ...

If “The Oresteia” is a juicy saga of family revenge swelling into public justice, and also the only trilogy we have from ancient Greece, why is it so rarely staged? “People are afraid of them,” says ...

Loizides’ previous productions, Bacchae and Troades, received warm welcomes wherever they were performed during their world tours in 2008 and 2009. The success of these productions has strengthened ...

It was a time when not only drama but democracy itself was born. Aeschylus was involved in the development of both. In his youth, he witnessed the fall of the last tyrant to rule ancient Athens and ...

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A fat lady does sing (more than once) toward the end, but that's hardly the only operatic aspect to Berkeley Rep's current "The Oresteia." The three-play Aeschylus cycle emerges as a two-evening epic ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Anastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke’s production of “Oresteia” at the Park Avenue Armory. By Laura Collins-Hughes ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ‘Oresteia’, the first of the Classical tragedies that come out of fifth century Athens. It is a tale of homecoming, murder, bloody vengeance and the establishment of Law.