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Rogue artistic director Nate White and his co-founders must be gamblers at heart. They are running performances of Rogue’s “Oresteia” (or-es-STY-ah), an ambitious project on a scale the ...
Greasy Joan and Co. probably didn’t plan to open their production of “The Oresteia” on the same evening that downtown Chicago filled with anti-war protesters. But the presence of so many ...
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 ...
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 ...
The backdrop for Thomas's new production of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy will visibly yoke the Athens of 2,500 years ago to the boarded-up shopping streets and graffiti-scrawled public spaces of ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Aeschylus’s Oresteia might be the cornerstone of Western drama, but it’s not an easy ask. However in adaptor/director Robert Icke’s outstanding modern updating, which achieves the hurtling ...
Over the coming weeks, Drama On 3 will broadcast all three plays in the Oresteia in accessible, fast-moving, contemporary versions by three of this country's most imaginative writers. The second ...
In 2010 the company presented classic Greek drama Antigone by Sophocles at Riverside Studios and now it has gone further back in time to bring Aeschylus’ trilogy The Oresteia to life ...