North American Premiere – A Park Avenue Armory and Almeida Theatre Production
Oresteia
Aeschylus
Robert Icke
Anastasia Hille
July 13, 2022 - August 13, 2022
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Aeschylus’ greatest and final play is a searing familial saga that examines the sins of a family over several decades and explores whether justice can ever really be done. Robert Icke‘s Olivier Award-winning adaptation of this moral dilemma comes to the Armory for its North American premiere following sold-out runs at the Almeida Theatre and on London’s West End.
Icke radically reimagines this Greek drama for the modern stage, condensing the tragic trilogy into a single performance that electrifies and devastates in equal measure with Olivier Award-nominated Anastasia Hille (The Effect, The Master Builder) in the role of Klytemnestra. This daring update allows audiences to investigate the justification of vengeance, the possibility of finding justice in retaliation, and the role of judicial democracy at work—themes that continue to resonate nearly two and a half millennia after the play was written.
This production will play in repertory with Hamlet for the first time, allowing audiences to experience the throughlines and connections in these classic dramas—depicting two epic family sagas written over 2,000 years apart—performed by the same cast.
Performances
Previews
Wednesday, July 13–Monday, July 25, 2022
Performances
Tuesday, July 26–Saturday, August 13, 2022
Evenings at 7:00pm
Matinees at 1:00pm
Run Time
This performance is approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes with two (2) intermissions and one (1) pause. Please note that this production contains nudity and uses theatrical fog/haze.
“[Icke’s] exhilarating adaptation is in part a demolition…It dispenses with stage conventions. Yet this is not destruction, but revelation.…it is whole and entire of itself.”
The Guardian (UK)
“Robert Icke’s extraordinary adaptation of Aeschylus’s Oresteia makes it feel as if you have electrodes wired into your soul.”
Time Out, London
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Aeschylus
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Adaptation, Direction
Robert Icke
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Sets & Costumes
Hildegard Bechtler
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Lighting
Natasha Chivers
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Sound
Tom Gibbons
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Video
Tim Reid
Production Credits
This Production had its World Premiere at The Almeida Theatre in London
Originally produced by The Almeida Theatre and Produced in the West End by Ambassador Theatre Group and Sonia Friedman Productions
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