Arrives today at the Teatro de la Abadía de Madrid (calle de Fernández de los Ríos, 42), the classic of the Greek playwright Aeschylus, Orestíada, in a version anchored in present times, by the hand of Teatro Urgente.
As the directors of this theatre company point out, comes this classic “crossed by the moral crisis of our time in which war conflicts and cycles of hatred fall on our shoulders and lead us to ask ourselves: What should we do in front of this overwhelming reality?
Two thousand five hundred years ago, a dramatic poet of ancient Greece wrote a tragic trilogy that raises the need to establish a civic agreement that ends with the endless cycles of revenge that plague coexistence. Today, in the 21st century, this need for civic agreement to exterminate wars, not just weapons, is a real fact. For Juan Mayorga, artistic director of La Abadía, having Aeschylus among the authors of the programming is a “commitment of this theater with society, since our horizon must be in Athens. The trilogy of Átridas calls us to answer fundamental questions about suffering, the feeling of justice or revenge”.
The production is directed by Ernesto Caballero and has a cast composed of Marta Poveda, Gabriel Garbisu, Olivia Baglivi, Nicolás Illoro, Alberto Fonseca, Bastian Iglesias and Samuel Silva. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
