Theatro Domatiou – Angela Brouskou
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
“A Sea there is, and who shall stay its springs?” The 2008 Epidaurus Festival closes with Agamemnon, the first tragedy in Aeschylus’ Oresteia, which was first performed in 458 BC. Agamemnon, the conqueror of Troy, returns to Argos in his chariot with the spoils of war: his slave and concubine, the princess Cassandra. Each step he takes upon the purple carpet leads him ritualistically closer to Clytemnestra and to death, in this first play of the highly significant trilogy of revenge, usurpation and discord.
Angela Brouskou has a background in alternative theatre. However, though this is her directorial debut at Epidaurus, ancient tragedy – related dialectically to the present day – has long formed a core axis of her research. Amalia Moutousi plays the matriarch, Clytemnestra. [A.K.].
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Duration 2 hours and 20 minutes with no interval.
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
- 22/08/2008 at 21:00
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