Agamemnon and His Daughters, adapted from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides by Kenneth Cavander. Directed by Molly Smith. Approximately three hours.

When Agamemnon is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra, he harvests the crop he sowed for years by abusing his family for the sake of his success.

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Clytemnestra is a woman of action who will not be scorned, and will not be disrespected by Agamemnon. So, with a little help from her lover, Aegisthus (Michael Pogue as a perfectly icy opportunist ...

“Agamemnon” tells of the return of the mightiest Greek king, Agamemnon, to his home in Greece from the war in Troy and of his murder there by his wife, Clytemnestra.

Agamemnon, king of Argos (Tom Woodward), has a problem. His brother Menelaus (Nicholas Sweeney) has been made a cuckold, with his sister-in-law, the beguiling Helen, spirited to Troy.

Starting with the bare bones of the Agamemnon and Clytemnestra story, Noon, DeWan, and the ensemble have created a contemporary first lady's-eye view of what really went down in that royal household.

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled Argos while Agamemnon was at Troy, where the war went on for ten years. The Greeks captured and looted the city, divided the treasure and sailed for home.

There may be no better example of the costs of the cycle of revenge than Aeschylus’ Oresteia. It’s the tale of how Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus killed her husband Agamemnon, king of Argos, ...