An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides Call it anti-canon: This terrific new translation goes the distance from breathless to brutish to keening Reviewed ...

Agamemnon's slaughter takes place in animated silhouette (the figures are stylized, like those on an ancient Greece vase) and blood gushes. Almost everyone kills in this show, but everyone seems ...

Beware the threequel. The law of diminishing returns is evident in Classic Stage Company's "An Oresteia." ...

Like the Shakespeare Theatre's "Oedipus Plays," Arena Stage's "Agamemnon and His Daughters" consolidates several Greek dramas to tell the whole saga of an ill-fated family tree. Director Michael ...

For instance, it is a pity that she does not pick up on the quotation of the Argive Chorus’s wail of despair in the Agamemnon by the campy Phrygian house slave in the Orestes: “ailinon ailinon ...

The myth of power-hungry King Agamemnon, his vengeful wife, Clytemnestra, and their murderous offspring Electra and Orestes is parsed out in three other plays that span millennia: Euripides ...

Anyone who’s attended productions of Marianne McDonald’s Greekplay adaptations at San Diego’s The Theatre Inc. knows thatMcDonald —- who has taught the classics at UC San Di… ...

Colm Tóibín’s latest novel, “House of Names,” is a retelling of the bloody, vengeance-fueled story of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon in the style of a modern novel.

Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon’s son Orestes is ...