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 ...
A never to be forgotten theatrical experience. A huge, moving, bloody saga, the original of all family dramas, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done? Part Godfather, ...
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 ...
The wedding dress, torn and blood-spattered, is one of the first images audiences of “The Oresteia” will glimpse. It was the dress worn by Iphigenia when sacrificed by her father, King Agamemnon, and ...
THE ORESTEIA: PART 2, THE LIBATION BEARERS; PART 3: THE EUMENIDES: Drama. By Aeschylus. Directed by Tony Taccone and Stephen Wadsworth. (Through May 6. Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2015 Addison St., ...
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Theatergoers aren’t exactly clamoring for multishow examinations of Greek classics. And that makes “Rogue’s Oresteia,” the umbrella title for Rogue Theater’s three-part cycle of plays, a bold choice ...
A fat lady does sing (more than once) toward the end, but that's hardly the only operatic aspect to Berkeley Rep's current "The Oresteia." The three-play Aeschylus cycle emerges as a two-evening epic ...
Three years ago, Rogue Theater put on its first play in Chicago, a modern retelling of the life of St. Francis of Assisi played out on a bare stage without set or costumes, with a budget of $600.
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