Sartre based his play on Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” – the cycle of works about the revenge of siblings Orestes and Electra against their mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, who conspired to kill the pair’s ...

Considering the fate of Argos, he laughs at the armored simplicities of his father Agamemnon’s military policies and at the naive democratic humanism of Aegisthus. In self-exile after his father ...

Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, has a lover, Aegisthus, who fans the flames of jealousy aroused in Clytemnestra by the arrival of Cassandra, with whom Agamemnon is very much infatuated. With ...

presents the titular heroine as a rebellious teenager intent on revenge after her mother Clytemnestra (Stockard Channing) and co-conspirator Aegisthus (Greg Hicks) murder her beloved father Agamemnon.

The actors playing Orestes, Electra and Clytemnestra are fluent in their stylised dialogue deliveries and are able to portray their characters with conviction. What is also very impressive is the fact ...

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy—Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend—and from where the ...

This month’s discussion will be “Clytemnestra” by Costanza Casati on May 5, followed by “The Children of Jocasta” by Natalie Haynes on June 9 and “Daughters of Olympus” by Hannah ...

This month’s discussion will be “Clytemnestra” by Costanza Casati on May 5. The program is free to the public. Toddler Storytime: 10:30 a.m. Fridays for ages 1 to 3 with adult participation ...