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 ...

We have met the Atreides, and they are us. At least this is so in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s new production of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern rendering of The Oresteia, Greek playwright Aeschylus’ ...

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 them,” says ...

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 ...

Performed for the very first time in 458 BC, the trilogy was awarded the top honor at the festival of Dionysia and has ...

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 ...

In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story ...

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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 Law.