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In a navy blue tiled bathroom, a woman is sat on the edge of a bathtub, staring into the middle distance. She is holding a switched-on electric heater, with her feet submerged in the bathwater which is being filled below. On the wall behind her is a mirror, with a neon red mirror light above it.
In a navy blue tiled bathroom, a woman is sat on the edge of a bathtub, staring into the middle distance. She is holding a switched-on electric heater, with her feet submerged in the bathwater which is being filled below. On the wall behind her is a mirror, with a neon red mirror light above it.

Oresteia

By Aeschylus, A New Version Created by Robert Icke

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29 May & 18 Jul 2015

Orestes’ parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus’ greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done – and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. 

Following Mr Burns and 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke radically reimagines Oresteia for the modern stage, in its first major London production in more than a decade.

Lia Williams returns to the Almeida as Klytemnestra.

Oresteia transferred to Trafalgar Studios in the West End and ran from 22nd August to 7th November 2015.

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CREATIVES

Version/Direction Robert Icke
Design Hildegard Bechtler
Light Natasha Chivers
Sound Tom Gibbons
Video Tim Reid
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Assistant Direction Anthony Almeida
Consultant Academic Simon Goldhill
Costume Supervision Laura Hunt
Dramaturg Duška Radosavljević
Casting Associate Lotte Hines
Assistant Sound Designer Dan Balfour

CAST

Lorna Brown
Jessica Brown Findlay
Rudi Dharmalingam
Annie Firbank
Joshua Higgott
John Mackay
Luke Thompson
Lia Williams
Angus Wright
Hara Yannas
Amelia Baldock
Eve Benioff Salama
Ilan Galkoff
Cameron Lane
Clara Read
Bobby Smalldridge