ORESTEIA Tickets and Dates

'A once-in-a-lifetime piece of theatre. The best thing that's been on the stage this year'. Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out 'The best show of the year. Shockingly good' Lyn Gardner, Guardian The unmissable acclaimed masterpiece Oresteia is brought to you from the Almeida Theatre - a venue renowned for introducing ground-breaking, critically acclaimed transfers to the West End. Following Chimerica, Ghosts, King Charles III and 1984, Oresteia is their most recent exhilarating theatrical feat. A huge, moving, bloody saga, the original of all family dramas, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done? Part Godfather, part Breaking Bad, this new reimagined version of the epic Greek saga is the unmissable event of the year. Directed by Robert Icke (Mr. Burns; 1984) and starring Lia Williams (Old Times; Earthquakes in London) as Klytemnestra and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) as Electra. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "It's an agonising, brutal and brilliant show" Time Out ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "This quiet riot of theatricality is so great that this still grips, surprises and unsettles throughout. Huge themes, ordinary people, great performances, big success." The Times ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "An exhilarating adaptation. The individual life versus the greater good. The inescapable consequences of foreign wars and of individual violence. The multiple accounts of one story. All this in one tremendous evening." Observer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "This is theatre-making that rearranges the audience's understanding of mythic characters, pulling off nuance as well as heft." Sunday Times ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Robert Icke's remarkable achievement is to make the ordinary extraordinary, the domestic epic, and vice versa over and over again" Mail on Sunday

A ú1.50 restoration levy (collected on behalf of the theatre) appears as part of the face value.

Booking Period: 22 August 2015 - 7 November 2015

Previews: 22 August 2015 - 5 September 2015

Running Time: Approximately 3 hours and 40 minutes including a 10 minute pause and a 15 minute interval.

LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED