Seneca's most cursed tragedy — now with 151 minutes of French screaming and family trauma.
Acting
Thomas Jolly's own performance — director eating his own cursed homework.
Direction
Jolly's staging turns Seneca's horror into physical, breathless endurance.
Production
151 minutes of unrelenting theatrical space — no escape, no intermission mercy.
Director
Julien Condemine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Seneca's Thyestes was considered so disturbing in antiquity that actors supposedly required ritual purification after performing it.
Jolly's 2018 staging preceded his Olympic fame; this is the same director who made the 2024 opening ceremony — just with more cannibalism and less Lady Gaga.
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