In only its second-ever staging of Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare's Globe goes straight for the big one, and the oldest extant piece of Western
theatre, Aeschylus' trilogy
The Oresteia. The Trojan War is over, and
Agamemnon (George Irving) is on his way back to his kingdom. But his
wife Clytemnestra (Katy Stephens) hasn't forgotten, or forgiven, what he
did to get his victory: To guarantee fair winds Agamemnon sacrificed
their youngest daughter Iphigenia. Ten years on, he will pay for it with
his own life, when his wife's smiles hide a plan for bloody revenge. But
in a family that's carried a curse for generations, violence breeds
violence. Another decade passes and Agamemnon's son Orestes (Joel
MacCormack) returns to the House of Atreus, intent on avenging his
father's death in turn.
