January 5 to 7, 11, 12
by Aeschylus
directed by Peter Flaherty
produced by Ignacio Prado
Agassiz Theater
Think you've seen Agamemnon? Think again. This production aims to turn Reading Period into Harvard's very own Bacchanalia, or at least a rollicking theater experience. Video and sound technology will allow the audience to become caught up in the well-worn tale of Clytemnestra's murder of Agamemnon, instead of passively standing by. For example, Agamemnon's entrance will be real time through the streets of Cambridge; and the many references in the text to prior events and the foreshadowing of two more plays in the cycle will be supplemented by "scary" video flashbacks. Clytemnestra will be a "two-personed bitch tied together by dog leashes," presumably trying to emphasize the contrast between her syrupy sweet reception of Agamemnon and her cold-blooded dispatching to Hades of the same. All of this is aimed at drawing out the turmoil already inherent in the play's pregnant lines, but which is often relegated to the climactic ending. Theater purists may blanch, but it should be delightful. The show premieres at Harvard before heading to New York in February.
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