if only we knew now what we knew then…

ORESTEIA
presented by the Residents, Sydney Theatre Company, June 2010

The story retold; as it has for thousands of years, as it must continue to be iterated until the human beast finally learns the folly of hubris – beginning with the launch of a thousand ships and ending with – well I would be loath to ruin the surprise. There’s something a little unnerving in the idea that in the mass media of the ancients the topic of war was discussed in depth. For Aeschylus and his peers were the social commentators of the day, the CNN or Fox Networks of the time.