The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns this summer with impressive, contemporary renditions of ...

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, ...

There is a laudable attempt to mimic the way a Greek chorus would develop their own ritual gestures: the young women gathered around Elektra spit when they utter the name of her hated stepfather, ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson (she of the 2015 film Room and Apple TV+’s Lessons In Chemistry), it’s a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy ...

Fish acknowledges this tension by keeping the play’s men, Orestes and late arrival Aegisthus (Greg Hicks), lingering unobtrusively at the back of the stage – as Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna ...

Of course, the scenario is far from everyday: Elektra is consumed by the desire for bloody revenge against her mother, who with her lover Aegisthus (Greg Hicks) murdered her husband Agamemnon on ...

Oh, and spitting – lots and lots of spitting, whenever the name of Aegisthus (Greg Hicks), Clytemnestra’s lover, comes up, which is often. A chorus of women in vaguely classical drapery and ...

Fish doesn’t let a single line go un-weirded. Everytime anyone says Aegisthus (Clytemnestra’s new husband), everyone spits. When they say Orestes they pat their chests. When Elektra says the ...

That they do not, although there’s a flicker of dramatic hope in Greg Hicks’ slithering Aegisthus and Stockard Channing’s Clytemnestra, dripping with waspish verve. A shame they are not ...

Agamemnon has sacrificed their daughter; he has brought home a mistress, Cassandra; and Clytemnestra feels loyalty, both personal and political, to Aegisthus, her husband’s cousin, whom she has ...

This functionary is dumped by her future lover, Aegisthus, on a stony barren island. In Oswald’s poem, which is virtuosic in its shape-shifting, this marooned character sometimes melts into the ...

In Ben and Max Ringham’s soundscape and under Adam Silverman’s bleak lights, a gunshot sounds whenever Elektra talks of the murder of her father Agamemnon; a slap greets the mention of her brother ...