ON THE FRINGE: The Oresteia Project

All good Live Arts/Fringe fests must come to an end, and what finer finale could it have than the last bit of Aeschylus' trilogy about the doomed House of Atreus at the end of the Trojan War?

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ON THE FRINGE: The Oresteia Project

POSTED: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 11:30 AM

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All good Live Arts/Fringe fests must come to an end, and what finer finale could it have than the last bit of Aeschylus’ trilogy about the doomed House of Atreus at the end of the Trojan War? The only thing better could have been a repeat of its entirety, which had a single run at LA/FF’s beginning.

That said, the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective book-in-hand performance ideal — though a tad distracting at times — was dearly theatrical and sparsely comported (Ministry’s arches and balcony are characters unto themselves) with drums and cymbals littered about the wide stage area for “watchman” Josh Totora to strike.

In short: After a father kills a daughter to appease the gods and the mother kills the dad for killing their daughter the other estranged kids Electra and Orestes, murder the mom to avenge their father’s death. Oh, mom cheated on dad — this really got the goat of Orestes (Robert DaPonte), who seemed to relish killing his mom.

DaPonte had a great sense of sarcastic rage as he dealt with punishment for his matricide before the judge-and-jury that was the aptly catty Furies (Annette Kaplafka, Kate Brennan). But justice isn’t the sort of thing to be trifled with, and Athena (Dana Kreitz) adjudicates the kangaroo court trial with a smile and a verdict amenable to all. Solid stuff.

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