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Oresteia - The Libation Bearers 1983 (cleaned & subtitled)
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Peter Hall's 1983 staging of Tony Harrison's adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia, with Robert Fagle's introductory quotations.
Have patience with the audio. It is only bad in the beginning. This was outstanding. I cannot wait to finish watching Eumenides. A production like this should be done again!
A major academic involved in this work has recently published his own translation of the oresteia. I expect he will stage it in the next few years. Oliver Taplin.
That annoying buzzing sound is present thoughout the entire video
He be like: "My name is Orestes son of Agamemnon, you killed my father, prepare to die!"
My name is Orestes of House Atreus. Bearer of libations. Loyal servant to the true king, Agamemnon. Brother to a murdered sister, son to a murdered father, and I will have my vengeance in this play or the next!
That's inconceivable! lol
Better than reading it, it makes more sense to hear it. Thank you, excellent!
I saw these as an undergraduate when they were pretty new -- maybe 1986. It's amazing. I couldn't get anyone I know now to watch something like this, which is sad. But I still remember them pretty well. I really wish there were a way to make these look modern vs. the video quality of 1983. Short of machine learning that fakes up the images it's hard to imagine it being any better than this, though.
Hearing the part where he details how apollo demanded he kill clytemnestra and the punishment if he didn't is brilliant. Considering the punishment the furies carried out anyway and apollo basically saying. "so what you believed me? I'm a god, I'm not going to be punished you are" is beautifully funny. Aeschylus was a true great.
Especially considering in a later work Orestes and Menelaus talk about how the Gods are fickle and cruel. Orestes remains distressed whereas Menelaus, a veteran of the Trojan War, is used to it
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2:05 Enter Electra and the Chorus
3:18 Chorus speeches
7:17 Electra speech
13:02 Lock of hair discovered
15:21 Enter Orestes again
17:26 Orestes speech
18:32 Orestes speech
20:52 Invocation, emotional preparation for the killings
32:10
37:29
39:21 Orestes and Pylades approach the house of Atreus
40:43 Enter Clytaemnestra
44:28
45:01 Enter Cilissa
48:28
49:52 Enter Aegisthus
51:00 Aegisthus enters the palace
52:02
52:28 Enter Clytaemnestra
52:54 Enter Orestes
56:21 She realises he was the snake in her dream
57:21 Stasimon
59:30 The doors open again
1:03:13 Orestes knows the trouble is not over yet
1:04:41 Orestes notices the Furies
1:06:07 Exit Orestes
thanks fam!
this is incredibly helpful!
@@a.z.fellco.1704 I needed it myself earlier this year
Coolest production ever
The BBC transmitted this at the time. It had a major impact on me
59:42-1:04 greg hicks speech is delivered dramatically. The way he says "putrefaction ", you can see he enjoys the language!
this is priceless. thank you. :)
Did they give Aegisthus goggly eyes to make the dramatic irony of his claim to be open-eyed even more obvious?
The subtitles help, given the stylized version of English that Tony Harrison creates.
This is gonna give me nightmares, I love it
Pylades only line in the Choephori: D E W I T
Great production! I love legitimate theatre.
Grazie mille!
You're welcome Filou
This is so good. My favorite part is 27:31-28:20.
I have a question though: who breastfed Orestes? Klytaimnestra and the nurse both claim to have done it since his birth.
Yes, really valuable work. The nurse breastfed Orestes in the Oresteia. Clytemnestra lies when she claims to have done it, she's trying to save herself. Not sure where I've got that from, but I'm pretty sure of it.
@@ericbohun542 Thanks!
@@ericbohun542 yes. It was symbolic in ancient Greece for mothers to try and manipulate or coerce their children by bearing their breast. Pretty sure it was a common theme as far back as the illyiad.
This play reminds me of Kabuki theatre. Although unrelated they share the same epic feeling. Are there other ancient plays of this quality? I tried watching Medea and Oedipus Rex but it's harder to follow those.
Try the Medea with Zoe Caldwell. (I think it was a PBS production. I'm pretty sure it's on YT somewhere) It's very easy to follow and it is utterly devastating.
does anyone know where I can find this in good video quality?
25:36 slaps🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏
I LOVE GREG HICKS
So metal :P
14:54 very nice
48.20 is such a funny moment.
Thank you!! 😍😍 what's Orestis's actor's name??
You're welcome. I think his name is Greg. Its listed in the documentary on my channel called the oresteia at epidaurus. Somewhere near the 20 minute point I think.
There's credits at the end
@@darkdave1998 really? Thanks!💎💎
@@ericbohun542 stan Greg
the actor is Greg Hicks. quite a famous shakespeare actor. UA-cam him, he's dramatic delivery of classical texts is quite addictive.
whats with the bad sound, all of Greg HIcks monologue is tainted by this bad sound. otherwise thank you for uploading this.
its like classical theatre fused with rap, and karate Asian movements. excellent
I love greg hicks
more baldrick
🇧🇷👍 *!!!!!!*
The audio is even worse on this.
Could you possibly repost these without subtitles? They're really distracting to me. Another account posted Agamemnon without subtitles but not the other two.
Another account had all of the videos without subtitles a few years ago. That's where I took my videos from initially. Search around a bit more, they're probably still on UA-cam.
@@ericbohun542damn, if so they're unlisted. I only found Agamemnon unsubbed. Probably the same account you got it from. I can't imagine it's something many people have.
@@ericbohun542oh what the hell? I suddenly found it. That's so strange. I swear I couldn't the first time I looked. Same account that posted Agamemnon too. I looked through their whole library after watching their Agamemnon and didn't see the others. How strange. Thank you for telling me to look again.
Great play. Shame the audio makes this unwatchable
I can hear just fine.
Why is there someone wearing a leather jacket?