Aeschylus Choephori (Libation Bearers)
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2012
- Choephori is the second play of the Oresteia - the oldest surviving classical tragedy.
The play opens as Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returns from exile with his friend Pylades and dedicates a lock of his hair on his father Agamemnon's tomb. His sister Electra and the Chorus of Trojan Women come to offer libations at the tomb, and in a deeply moving scene brother and sister recognize one another. They swear to avenge their father's death, as they have been directed to do by Apollo.
Disguised as strangers, Orestes and Pylades enter Agamemnon's palace and Orestes first kills Aegisthus and then his mother Clytemnestra. Threatened by the Furies, he flees to seek Apollo's help. - Розваги
What an amazing thing to be able to watch a play that is almost 2,500 years old from home on a laptop.
The masks and the music make it so much it more dramatic. I saw this production in London when I was a student, but I was too young to appreciate it.
Thank you to whoever put this on UA-cam.
Dazzling. The Chorus, Orestes, Pylades, the nurse, Elektra, Aegisthus, and, especially, Clytemnestra, are spellbinding. The performance is not watered down: it expresses the terror of unfolding crisis. Thank you so much for uploading this video!
Brilliant! I've been waiting for this to become available again. It's a travesty that this piece of cultural history should be suppressed: NOT available commercially, yet banned online too. Thank you so much for rescuing it.
Thank you for the upload.
Lovely to have a great drama.
It helps to understand more!
Burnett in Cork, Ireland
6:05 "when the earth's gullet's choked on the gore it has gulped, the blood glut clots rock like and can't reach earth's gut" holy phthongus
Thank you so much for sharing.
Banned? Well, I hope I don't get in trouble for bringing it back to life. The Furies is being processed as I type this.
For the Greeks JUSTICE was a kind of force in nature that sought balance and retribution.
Hearing Tony Robinson’s voice coming from behind a mask in a tragic play is... jarring. But he does have a cunning plan!
this is an indictment against the endless cycle of vengeance.
Excellent
Thanks for posting this. Libation Bearers (458 BCE) is not the oldest surviving classical tragedy, though. Aeschylus' Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and Suppliant Women are all earlier.
The audio is painful.
you can watch this video with improved audio by searching for "Oresteia 1983 subtitled & cleaned"
You can watch this video with improved audio by searching for "Oresteia 1983 subtitled & cleaned"
It's available on Theatre in Video.
Not that I'm aware of. There's not many productions available.
The video quality isn't great, but I like this performance a lot. What translation is this?
Couldnt lsiten the audio makes it impossible, but I enjoyed the performance
Any news on availability yet? I'm in the UK and can't seem to get these plays anywhere, bar here on youtube.
Try and put yourself in the sandals of the ancient Greeks who were the original viewers.
Which translation was used for the production?
Thank you, also. What translation is being used?
27:40 is just brilliant - outdoes Gangsta Rap anytime
Would you be able to tell me which translation was used in this version? Trying to read along but the translation I have doesn't match.
ILOVEMyTeddyBer I noticed that too. They really seemed to have changed A LOT of the dialogue.
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It’s a pretty liberal reworking of the text in parts. The chorus being Trojan slaves for example is a major interpolation.
Any hint of the third play, The Eumenides?
Twits or twists??
Millennia
What the.... Hell?
The Clash of Duties is an Awesome theme. Jesus, having seen this in his day, may have been addressing it's dilemma. Think about it. When Pilate says to Jesus, "We all have TRUTHS", here is the Greco/Roman Spirit set in this Religious PLAY. Man, The Gods and Justice for the Greeks Vs The same and the Hebrews. It is a clash in social Logic that we still suffer from.
21:30
Swairard can I make a suggestion? Perhaps before you send pompous replies to people that maybe you learn how to spell correctly???
I loved just about everything they did with Agamemnon so I was really disappointed with how much worse this one is. The line delivery seemed much more stilted, the music not nearly as good, as impactful, the dialogue much weaker - you'd think it was a different translator - and of course the story as a whole much weaker. I know it's shorter, not a lot happens, but I'm really disappointed that Clytemnestra didn't continuously remind him of the reason she killed Agamemnon, because he killed Orestes' sister! She killed a killer. My favorite moment from the first play was when the elders call for her banishment she says (paraphrasing) oh NOW you care about justice; what about justice for this murderer here?!" Orestes should've killed her anyway becaus the prophet said he had to, but he really should've grappled more with the justification as his mother was only bringing his father to justice. Goes to show how little both Orestes and Electra thought of their sister that they acknowledge she was sacrificed but don't say by whom, all the while continuously saying their mother's crime demands justice.