REVIEW: Oresteia, Almeida Theatre ★★★
By Stephen Collins This is Oresteia, not The Oresteia, the trilogy of plays (Agamennon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) which won Aeschylus a prize in 458BC and which is considered the "original family drama" and the launching pad for all modern drama, but the free-wheeling, self-indulgent, filmic, and loose "adaptation" by Robert Icke which is now playing at the Almeida, kicking off Rupert Goold's Greeks season…