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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 ...
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 ...
A new adaptation of “The Oresteia” reminds us that a 2,400-year-old work can still feel appallingly familiar. By Jesse Green Most of us don’t know our Euripides from our Eumenides ...
Music, myth and immortals converge in Constellation Theatre Company’s ambitious and well-intentioned production of Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” trilogy. First produced in 458 B.C., “The ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The HRDC Mainstage production of Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” is an ambitious effort marked by superb acting, professional-grade production values, and gripping moments of brilliance.
The Oresteia is heavy and slow going ... But in the third episode, she shows that she can scream and shout with the best of them, bellowing away like Al Pacino, and writhing in a manner that would ...
The Oresteia Berkeley Repertory Theater/Roda Theater, Berkeley, CA; 600 seats; $51 top Production: A Berkeley Repertory Theater presentation of the plays by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles.