Agamemnon 2010

In war, truth is the first casualty…

The 2010 production of AGAMEMNON took place at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 13-16 October 2010, 2.30 and 7.45pm at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Directed by Helen Eastman, it featured a through-composed score by Alex Silverman.

4692 tickets were sold. There were accompanying schools talks on the first three days: Dr Jennifer Wallace, ‘Agamemnon and the Decisive Moment’, Prof. Simon Goldhill, ‘Language and Women in Aeschylus’, and Prof. Robin Osborne, ‘The Politics of the Agamemnon’. On the 17th there was an academic symposium to discuss Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and the 2010 production.

"This play was all ancient Greek to me. But I liked it.

If you don’t speak the lingo, it’s the soundworld of ancient Greek – awash with strange noises and rhythmic tides – that strikes you… By the end, I realised I’d been seized by the zeal of a proselyte. The only sadness is that I’ll have to wait another three years." 

- Padraig Bolton, Guardian