The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic

Bridge theatre, London Mary-Louise Parker gives a powerhouse performance in a three-part drama that cuts up Aeschylus’s chronology and adds shades of other plays Although writer-director Simon Stone has named his play The Oresteia, the credits make clear that this is a drama “after Aeschylus and Others”. The Aeschylus is recognisable here, particularly in the most faithful, and supremely gripping, first of three parts. But the “others” are key too, with many shades of Greek tragedies thrown in, from Antigone to Medea, and maybe even Oedipus Rex. Agamemnon’s sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia

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