Greek Tragedy – Archive

In Full Tilt’s revival of Orestes: Re-Examined, the audience is brought forward as jury to judge the case of Orestes’ matricide and its myriad ramifications.

Hytner makes a shrewd directorial choice to modernise Jean Racine’s 17th century classic tragedy and tackles it as a psychodrama.

This is Euripides without tears, a happy ending snatched from catastrophe, and the funniest Greek tragedy you’re likely to come across.

In their grimy, bloodied hands, Sophocles’ drama acquires an unpretentious, slightly battered and totally compelling integrity.

When I spoke to director Mike Tweddle, in rehearsal for the world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new version of Hippolytus, I started by asking what drew him to Euripides’ tale…

Participatory theatre is hard. Especially when the audience don’t want to play ball. But I remain to be convinced that relentless pestering, emotional blackmail and the odd physical shove onto the dancefloor is the answer.

Theatre of Silence’s Seeking Oedipus is played out on a steeply raked ramp, where the private acts of the tragedy’s protagonists are pinioned in the glare of public scrutiny. The…

In Blood: The Bacchae fuses the story of Besouro, a folk hero of the struggle for Afro-Brazilian equality, with Euripides’ tragedy of a seductive vengeful god returning to claim the…

Euripides’ Alcestis, a not-quite-tragic Greek tragedy, centres upon a wife’s self-sacrificing decision to die in her doomed husband’s place. Ted Hughes’ version of the play is a visceral and uncompromising…

The Cows Come Home is an enigmatic experience that resonates in some place deeper and stranger than the intellect.