This Restless House
an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia
$44.01
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
21 April 2016
Summary
*‘Electrifying … This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax.’ GUARDIAN ******
Aeschylus’ Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the mantle of avenging his father, continuing the bloodshed until peace i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571332625 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571332625 |
| Author: | Zinnie Harris |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 21 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 285g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 125mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Faber Drama |
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Zinnie Harris
Zinnie Harris’s plays include the multi-award-winning Further than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre/Tron Theatre; winner of the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Award, 2001 John Whiting Award, Edinburgh Fringe First Award), How to Hold Your Breath (Royal Court Theatre; joint winner of the Berwin Lee Award), The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland; joint winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award), Nightingale and Chase (Royal Court Theatre), Midwinter, Solstice (both RSC), Fall (Traverse Theatre/RSC), By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre), the trilogy This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland), based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Meet Me at Dawn (Traverse Theatre). Also, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House for the Donmar Warehouse, Strindberg’s Miss Julie for the National Theatre of Scotland and Webster’s The Duchess (of Malfi) (Royal Lyceum Theatre). Zinnie received an Arts Foundation Fellowship for playwriting, and was Writer in Residence at the RSC, 2000-2001. She is Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting at St Andrews University, and is the Associate Director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.
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