Agamemnon, after ten years of absence from Troy, returns at the beginning of the trilogy to find his queen, Clytaemestra, living with her paramour, Aegisthus. The king, however, brings the captive ...

Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon’s son Orestes is ...

Description: Approaching Dobson’s Aegisthus sparks a rush of anticipation. A transparent acrylic cylinder with hundreds of matches stuck perfectly into as many holes — it’s kind of ...

Agamemnon, the father of the house, was killed by his unfaithful wife, Clytaemnestra, with the help of her sinister lover, Aegisthus, as retribution for having sacrificed their daughter ...

Clytemnestra, his queen, and Aegisthus, her lover, kill him. Over the plays that follow, Electra and her brother Orestes revenge their father’s death, slaying their adulterous mother and her ...

Electra’s mother, Clytemnestra, has murdered her father, Agamemnon, and taken up with a lover, Aegisthus. Electra’s mind has become twisted with ideas of revenge and murder against ...

When Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to the gods for victory in the Trojan War, his wife Clytemnestra is understandably unhappy. Aeschylus’s trilogy, adapted by Rory Mullarkey and ...

She is joined onstage by Stockard Channing as Clytemnestra, Elektra’s mother and one of Agamemnon’s killers, Marième Diouf as Chrysothemis, the sister of Elektra, Greg Hicks as Aegisthus, ...

In his absence, she also took up with his cousin, Aegisthus. Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s two other daughters, Elektra (stylised with a k in this production) and Chrysothemis, have been in the ...

With Will Howard as Orestes, Joanne Froggatt as Electra, Lesley Sharp as Clytemnestra, Sheila Reid, Amanda Lawrence and Carys Eleri as The Chorus, Sean Murray as Aegisthus, Carolyn Pickles as ...

Marry Clytemnestra! What could possibly go wrong?” (For the uninitiated, Clytemnestra took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon was away at war. Upon his return, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered ...