Word: oresteia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aeschylus' Oresteia: The Classical Greek Trilogy of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Orestes. A new adaptation directed by Joann Green and performed by the Cambridge Ensemble at 115 Mass Ave. Playing Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm through Feb. 26. Tickets are $3 and $4. For info, call...
...bulk of the play is a retelling of the Oresteia legend, and it makes for some restive or torpid listening depending on the playgoer's mood. The basic story line is intact. With his fleet becalmed on the way to Troy, Agamemnon (W.B. Brydon) sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to win the gods' favor. His embittered wife Clytemnestra takes a lover, Aegisthus, who murders Agamemnon upon his return from the war. The dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra...
...Greeks, the Oresteia was an exemplary tale of moral downfall designed to evoke pity and terror. Rabe's tone is pejorative, like that of a prosecuting attorney who is pressing play goers to confess that all men are bloody-minded beasts. There is no court of appeal in The Orphan. God is dead, absolute power has produced absolute corruption and society is a cracked veneer of hypocrisy...