While Aeschylus’s three plays ( Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides) begin with King Agamemnon’s homecoming from the Trojan War and his subsequent killing by his wife Queen Klytemnestra as revenge for the death of their daughter Iphigenia), Icke chose to create an entirely new first act which covers material in Homer’s The Iliad and Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis) in which we learn of the god’s decree that for the Greeks to win the Trojan War (here not stated as to which war), Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greek forces, must sacrifice his daughter. Presented as a long evening of four plays, this is a commitment for the audience as the running time is three hours and 35 minutes with three intermissions. The Almeida Theatre production now at the Park Avenue Armory features magnificent performances by Anastasia Hille (Baptiste’s wife Celia in the television series of the same name) and Angus Wright (Claudius, in Icke’s current also modern dress production of Hamlet running in repertory with Oresteia) as Klytemnestra and Agamemnon.

Director Robert Icke’s new version of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, the only complete Greek trilogy that remains extant, has been adapted into a updated tetralogy that is accessible, easy to identify with, and dramatically exciting.

It was Sophocles and Euripides who added what we consider drama to ancient Greek plays. If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. in Columns // On the Town with Chip Deffaa: “As You Like It” On Stage and “Banded Together” In the Movies.in Features // Eighteen-Year-Old Actor with Autism Honored by Only Make Believe Charity.in Musicals // Khan!!!The Musical, A Parody Trek-tacular.in Off-Broadway // Robin & Me: My Little Spark of Madness.in Columns // On The Town with Chip Deffaa: At “New York, New York,” “Some Like It Hot,” and Seth Sikes & Nicholas King’s Nightclub Act.in Off-Broadway // Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO/Two River Theater).in Off-Broadway // Samuel Clemens: Tales of Mark Twain.The committee had to put out appeals for donations after the production to clear the debt. The ambitious production – making good, perhaps, for the silence of the Greek Play during World War I and the years thereafter – resulted in a budget deficit of over £425. 33) was conducted by Charles Wood and published by J. Music commissioned from the prolific composer Armstrong Gibbs (op. Film footage of the production was taken, with a half-hour showing put on at the Victoria Cinema in May Week. Sheppard published a guide to the story in the Cambridge Review, 28 January and 11 February 1921. Trevelyan, Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Cambridge 1920). The translation sold to audiences is R.C. The ORESTEIA by Aeschylus was performed in 1921, and this was the first production where more than one play was performed.

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