Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
February 23-March 2
Yet there drips in sleep before my heart
a griefremembering pain.
Good sense comes the hard way.
And the grace of the gods
(I’m pretty sure)
is a grace that comes by violence.
Friday, September 23, 7.30 pm
Saturday, Sept 24, 2 & 7.30 pm
Sunday, September 25, 2 pm
Stockbridge Theatre, Derry, NH
Ten years ago, Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army sacrificed his own daughter to appease the gods and to help the war effort. Now, victorious after the ten long and bloody years of the Trojan War, he returns home to his kingdom and to his wife, Clytemnestra. His glorious homecoming is the spark that ignites a cycle of vengeance that threatens to consume and destroy his entire family.
Agamemnon is the first play of Aeschylus’ trilogy The Oresteia, which was first performed and won Aeschylus the first prize at the at the Fesitval of Dionysus in 458 BCE. Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, translator, was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Show Details
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Translated by Anne Carson
Directed by Matt Cahoon
Lighting Design byTayva Young
Agamemnon… Wallace Pineault
Clytemnestra… Gail Angellis
Chorus Leader… Peter Josephson
Watchman… Joel D. Breen
Messenger … Aaron Compagna
Cassandra… Carey Cahoon
Aigisthos… Rich Hurley
Chorus… Kate Harper, Don Tongue
Audience Reaction
“It was an EXCELLENT show! A celebration of movement, sound, lighting and emotion! One of the most unique productions I have ever seen!”
“This was a great show and the performances were powerful. It is still haunting me “I keep losing my screams, but they always come back to me.” The past fuses itself to you very marrow and, even after memory fades, emerges again within each action. This is the meaning of a curse, and to see the hidden past of things is the meaning of prophecy, which is itself a curse.”
“It was no less than magnificent”
