A family is haunted by its part in an unjust war, the painful burden of inherited trauma and intergenerational conflict, and the descent into an increasingly merciless vortex of violence. Simon Stone's adaptation of The Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus' Greek tragedies (consisting of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides), shows us that as long as humankind wages wars and families tear themselves apart, this story will remain painfully, cathartically relevant. Stage play performed at The Bridge Theatre in London, UK.

Simon Stone rewrites Euripides’s Medea as a taut, edge-of-your-seat play, finding a contemporary and relatable reality for his masterful modern-day retelling of an average family’s darkest days. After involuntary confinement in a psychiatric hospital, Anna, once a successful doctor, is determined to put things right. Willing to forgive her husband’s affair with a younger woman, she wants a fresh start with him and their children. But he has different plans. Sidelined and in danger of losing everything, she is driven into a corner and sees only one way out.

Euripides’ controversial icon is reborn in visionary director Simon Stone’s (Yerma) stunning contemporary rewrite. Rose Byrne (Damages, Bridesmaids, You Can’t Take It with You) and Bobby Cannavale (The Lifespan of a Fact, The Hairy Ape, The Motherf**ker with the Hat) face off as a husband and wife in the tumultuous throes of an unraveling marriage. Transposing the devastation of Greek tragedy to a modern American home, Stone’s stripped-bare staging throws the couple’s every raw emotion into stark relief, from jealousy to passion, humor to despair. Who will pay the price?

时长155分钟，含休息 By Simon Stone based on Anton Chekhov Directed by Simon Stone Theater Basel Directed by SIMON STONE Stage LIZZIE CLACHAN Costumes MEL PAGE Music STEFAN GREGORY Lighting design CORNELIUS HUNZIKER Dramaturgy CONSTANZE KARGL Olga BARBARA HORVATH Masha FRANZISKA HACKL Irina LILIANE AMUAT Andrey NICOLA MASTROBERARDINO Natasha CATHRIN STÖRMER Theodor MICHAEL WÄCHTER Alexander ELIAS EILINGHOFF Viktor SIMON ZAGERMANN Nikolai MAX ROTHBART Roman ROLAND KOCH Herbert FLORIAN VON MANTEUFFEL A glasshouse straight from the wish list of affluent children: This is where director Simon Stone sets Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”. A modern ambience, accessible from all sides, thanks to a revolving stage. Only for seconds, if that, does the façade block the audience’s view of arguments and sex and boozing sessions – because that’s what goes on in this most contemporary Chekhov adaptation the theatre has seen for a long time. Stone completely re-wrote the dialogue and fitted his characters with a modern-day skin, while retaining Chekhov’s story and conflict constellation, his tragicomedy, melancholy, longing and pain. The excellent Basel acting company enhances the triviality of events surrounding Irina’s birthday party by also acting out the phoniness of the daily soap set in the sisters’ holiday home. Triviality is a thin, transparent protective cover. Underneath, the characters wear nothing but naked despair. And the scars of their fruitless search for happiness.