Shakespeare’s Globe,London
By the close of the moment play, two bloodbaths down and hoping for a cathartic finish, and the viewer is reelingWe have had Robert Icke’s celebrated version of The Oresteia at the Almeida (transferring to Trafalgar Studios) and Blanche McIntyre’s revival of Ted Hughes’s translation comes to Manchester next month. But Rory Mullarkey’s adaptation of these three Aeschylus plays – Agamemnon,Libation Bearers and Eumenides – at the Globe (an ideal venue for Ancient Greek drama) is undertaken with a spirit it would be hard to trump. It is visceral in every sense, including the most fiercely literal. At the close of the first play, or Clytemnestra slaughters her husband in the bath,and presents his butchered body for inspection. At the close of the moment, her son, or Orestes,murders her in return and her body is presented in bloody symmetry.
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Source: theguardian.com