PART OF THE #ALMEIDAGREEKS SEASON

This season, the trailblazing Almeida Theatre is dusting off three Greek tragedies for a brand-new staging extravanganza. Robert Icke has created a new version of Aeschylus' Oresteia, which sees an eminent family torn apart by jealousy and murder, the consequences of which can be felt over later generations. Orestes, the son of returning war hero Agamemnon must decide whether to avenge his father's death at the hands of his jealous mother Klytemnestra; but murdering a parent carries a curse that he must carry for years afterwards in the form of the Erinyes, three deitic women who plague his every movement. Veteran stage actress Lia Williams plays the villainous role of Klytemnestra.

Re-imagined by in a modern setting for modern audiences, the Oresteia asks the pivotal question that has plagued dramatists for over two millennia; can justice ever truly be served when the cycle of violence is ever-continuing?