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 ...

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 ...

This year, the Westminster Theatre Season will include a Classical Greek Theatre Festival presentation of The Oresteia in their Dumke Student Theatre on the Westminster University campus February ...

A never to be forgotten theatrical experience. A huge, moving, bloody saga, the original of all family dramas, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done? Part Godfather, ...

The creative team behind the productions features director Icke, set and costume designer Hildegard Bechtler, lighting designer Natasha Chivers, and sound designer Tom Gibbons. Video is by Tal Yarden.

(Ed. Note: This film was shown at the Summer School a decade ago. We reprint herewith the review of it that ran in these pages ten years ago to the day.) Over the past half century Randolph-Macon ...

Leave it to iconoclastic Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini to make a feature-length movie out of his production notes! Fascinated by the ancient Greek legend of Orestes, Pasolini travels not to ...

The article in the title is telling: This is not the Oresteia, the Aeschylus trilogy of plays that detail domino murders in the House of Atreus, a family "glued to ruin." Instead, translator Anne ...

Imagine an Old Testament movie epic in which only the Genesis part is filmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Exodus goes to Alfred Hitchcock and Deuteronomy to Quentin Tarantino. The laws of Israel would still ...