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 ...

Splendid Productions present an epic, murderous tale of family, history, vengeance and honour in a story nearly as old as theatre. Condensing Aeschylus’s classic trilogy into an hour, Splendid ...

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(An additional movie review appears on page 4 of this issue ... but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty masterpiece of the first great dramatist in history. So successful was ...

They are running performances of Rogue’s “Oresteia” (or-es-STY-ah), an ambitious project on a scale the company could only dream of in 2002. “We as a company wanted to sort of make a ...

As unhappy families go, the House of Atreus is difficult to outdo, or rather out-woe. A man who kills his brother’s sons and feeds their flesh to him. A king who sacrifices his daughter for ...

It’s a harrowing excursion to be sure. But in his heart-stopping mounting of Aeschylus’s tragedy, “The Oresteia,” the final destination is not despair. It’s hope. What a fitting and ...

So it's only fitting that the sole surviving example of the Greek tragedies is Aeschylus' The Oresteia, a trilogy of plays that center around the accursed House of Atreus and its struggles with ...

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 ...