Agamemnon: A Polyphony

Ten long years after the beginning of the Trojan War, a lone watcher waiting in the pre-dawn darkness above the city of Argos finally sees a sign that the Greeks are victorious and that the King and his men are coming home. In the square below, a group of citizens discuss the tangled web of events that led to this moment. Inside the palace, the Queen makes final preparations to welcome her husband home. A cursed house. A terrible choice. A bloody reunion. Agamemnon: A Polyphony is an original adaptation of Aiskylos's 2500-year old tragedy about the ways that violence, betrayal, and hubris, reverberate through family, society, the cosmos, and history alike. Told in many voices-Aiskylos himself, a number of modern translators, a range of poets responding to and inspired by his work, fragments and echoes of other plays, and original additions to and reimaginings of the dialogue-the Electric City Players present an ancient story, both intimate and enormous, that asks age-old questions about our place in ongoing legacies of violence.