The Almeida's ORESTEIA, Starring Lia Williams and Jessica Findlay Brown, Headed to Trafalgar Studios

ORESTEIA, in a modern reimagining by Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke, will be transferring to Trafalgar Studios late next month -- original company intact.

The Daily Mail writes that Tony nominee Lia Williams will reprise her role as 'Clytemnestra', with DOWNTON ABBEY's Jessica Findlay Brown as 'Electra'.

Also in the cast are Amelia Baldock, Lorna Brown, Rudi Dharmalingam, Ann Firbank, Ilan Galkoff, Joshua Higgott, Cameron Lane, John Mackay, Clara Read, Eve Salama, Bobby Smalldridge, Luke Thompson, Angus Wright and Hara Yannas.

The production is is directed by Robert Icke and designed by Hildegard Bechtler, with lighting design by Natasha Chivers, sound by Tom Gibbons and video by Tim Reid.

Following MR BURNS and 1984, Icke radically reimagines ORESTEIA for the modern stage, in its first major London production in more than a decade.

Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written.

Pictured: Jessica Brown Findlay and Angus Wright in Aeschylus' Oresteia at the Almeida. Photo by Manuel Harlan.

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