The Oresteia Tickets

Written over 2,500 years ago by Aeschylus, The Oresteia is the only complete Greek tragic trilogy to have survived antiquity. It tells the story of the House of Atreus: Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War to be murdered by his wife Clytemnestra; their son Orestes avenges his father by killing his mother; and then faces trial for the act — a trial that gives birth to the concept of justice itself. In Stone’s retelling, this ancient saga becomes the story of a modern family trapped in cycles they cannot escape.

Simon Stone — the Olivier Award-winning Australian director whose productions include Yerma at the Young Vic, Phaedra at the National, and The Lady from the Sea at this same venue — has made the Bridge Theatre his London home. This marks his third production here, reuniting the complete creative team from The Lady from the Sea: set designer Lizzie Clachan, costume designer Mel Page, composer Stefan Gregory, lighting designer Nick Schlieper, and casting director Jessica Ronane CDG.

The production replaces Stone’s previously announced production of Ivanov starring Chris Pine, which has been rescheduled to summer 2027. Existing Ivanov ticket holders have been contacted separately. The Oresteia is produced by London Theatre Company in collaboration with Wouter van Ransbeek.