The Oresteia at the Bridge Theatre

We love watching audiences queuing excitedly on Potters Fields Park outside the Bridge Theatre.    Since it opened in 2017, we’ve enjoyed a fantastic range of new plays, Shakespearean classics, musicals and star performances (not to mention great coffee, wines and baked treats from St. John).

If you enjoyed Simon Stone’s contemporary adaptation of The Lady from the Sea last year, then you’re in for a treat this year.

A contemporary family wakes up in a Greek myth and can’t seem to find a way out of their hellish destiny. As author and director Simon Stone explains,

“The Oresteia is one of the theatre’s great foundational texts and it hasn’t lost any of its potency to this day. A family haunted by its part in an unjust war, the painful burden of inherited trauma and inter-generational conflict, the descent into an increasingly merciless vortex of violence: as long as humankind wages wars and as long as families tear themselves apart this story will remain painfully, cathartically relevant. It is with great excitement that we embark on bringing this tale into our times at the Bridge Theatre.”

With a cast including Tom Glynn-Carney, David Morrissey, Mary-Louise Parker and Rosie Sheehy, this powerful adaptation should be on your ‘must-see’ list this summer.

It runs from July 2nd – September 19th; find out more and book here

The Oresteia is produced by London Theatre Company and Wouter van Ransbeek.

(And there’s another Simon Stone treat lined up for summer 2027, when Chris Pine makes his London stage debut in Stone’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Ivanov).