Oresteia Tickets

‘A once-in-a-lifetime piece of theatre. The best thing that’s been on the stage this year’.
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out
 
‘The best show of the year. Shockingly good’
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

The unmissable acclaimed masterpiece
Oresteia is brought to you from the Almeida Theatre - a venue renowned for introducing ground-breaking, critically acclaimed transfers to the West End. Following Chimerica, Ghosts, King Charles III and 1984, Oresteia at Trafalgar Studios is their most recent exhilarating theatrical feat.
A huge, moving, bloody saga, the original of all family dramas, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done?
Part Godfather, part Breaking Bad, this new reimagined version of the epic Greek saga is the unmissable event of the year. 
Directed by Robert Icke (Mr. Burns; 1984) and starring Lia Williams (Old Times; Earthquakes in London) as Klytemnestra and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) as Electra.

CREATIVE BILLING
ROBERT ICKE - VERSION/ DIRECTION
HILDEGARD BECHTLER – DESIGN
NATASHA CHIVERS – LIGHT
TOM GIBBONS – SOUND
JULIA HORAN CDG – CASTING

Oresteia Reviews:

“It’s an agonising, brutal and brilliant show”
Time Out

This is Greek drama humanised and modernised and it’s a tremendous achievement.
Evening Standard

★★★★★
‘Theatre at its most vital. As alarmingly good as it is intense and distressing. If you see only one play this autumn, make it this one.’
Londonist

★★★★★
‘Electrifying. The Almeida’s latest, superb West End transfer. Lia Williams is absolutely riveting as Klytemnestra’
The Times

★★★★
'Luminously interpreted with central performances of captivating precision from Angus Wright and Lia Williams’
Daily Telegraph

‘Theatre at its most electrifying, stunningly beautiful. A staggering performance from Lia Williams’
Official London Theatre