Barnard Columbia Ancient Drama Group presents Euripides' Orestes, performed in Ancient Greek with English supertitles. Directed by Ruya Tazebay.

First performed on the fiftieth anniversary of Aeschylus' Oresteia amidst great political and social turmoil, Orestes reworks the familiar tragedy of the House of Atreus in startling, unfamiliar ways, with mayhem (!), murder (?), and a happy (?!) ending. Abandoned by their family, their society, and their gods, Electra and Orestes—together with their friend Pylades—devise an outrageous, bloody scheme for their own salvation. 

Tickets are available on Eventbrite. The three performances in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre are as follows:

• Friday, April 17, 7:00 p.m.

• Saturday, April 18, 1:00 p.m., followed by talkback with cast and crew. 

• Saturday, April 18, 7:00 p.m.

The Barnard/Columbia Ancient Drama Group presents Mangled House, an original collage of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Seneca’s Thyestes. The bloody family drama of the Agamemnon plays out as we know it, but this time in high American Gothic style and haunted by the House of Atreus’ ancestral ghosts, who reenact their own tragedy—of sibling rivalry, cannibalism, and revenge—in the background of their children’s. Inspired by midcentury haunted house tales, black-and-white horror films, and Gothic Grand Guignol classics like The Fall of the House of Usher, Mangled House is also a commentary on translation, archival history, and what it means to rewrite the past. Performed in Ancient Greek and Latin with English subtitles.

Tickets are available on eventbrite. The three performances in Minor Latham Playhouse are as follows: 

Friday March 29th, 8pm

Saturday March 30th, 8pm 

Sunday March 31st, 2pm 

This performance is made possible by the Matthew Alan Kramer Fund.