Your family drama could never. Ancient Greek tragedy goes experimental and absolutely unhinged.
The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.
Acting
Mariangela Melato's Clytemnestra: terrifying, magnetic, unhinged.
Direction
Ronconi's stage-to-screen madness breaks every convention.
Production
Television theater experiment that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Director
Luca Ronconi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1972 RAI broadcast helped legitimize televised experimental theater in Italy, influencing decades of stage-to-screen adaptations.
Ronconi's staging in an actual ancient Greek theater with modern costumes deliberately collapsed temporal distance—making the blood-feud feel uncomfortably contemporary.
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