Word: oresteia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Atreus is an adaptation by John Lewin of Aeschylus' trilogy, The Oresteia. Agamemnon has sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win from the gods a favoring wind that will speed his fleet to Troy. Mad with grief and fury, his Queen, Clytemnestra, awaits the return of the victorious King from the Trojan War, and while he is in his bath she stabs him to death. Aided by his sister Electra, Agamemnon's son Orestes in turn murders both his mother and her lover Aegisthus. Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is tried before the goddess of Athens...
...project. In nearby Waverly, Mrs. Hubert Humphrey showed her a bookmobile and artmobile and fed her homemade ice cream on the lawn. In Minneapolis-which hardly qualifies as a village-she suffered nobly through Tyrone Guthrie's The House of Atreus, a 31-hour version of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. In Columbus, Ind., "the Athens of the Prairie," she listened to the American National Opera Company and praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers as I. M. Pei and the late Eero Saarinen). At Ironwood, Mich., she dedicated a park. At Avoca...
...Tois toi dikaiois cho brachys nika megan." (A film showing of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" trilogy, in Greek with English narration, will take place this Thursday in Emerson Hall 210 at 7:30 p.m., and will be open to the public without charge...
...Terpsichore rolled into one. She had her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty masterpiece of the first great dramatist in history...
...THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis, Minn. Shoemakers' Holiday, by Thomas Dekker, Anouilh's farce, Thieves' Carnival, and a new play, Harpers Ferry, by Barrie Stavis will be in repertory at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater until Oct. 27. The House of Atreus, adapted by John Lewin from Aeschylus' Oresteia, will be added to the playbill on July 21; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Visit debuts on Sept...