The Oresteia
Overview of the production
A contemporary family wakes up in a Greek myth and can’t seem to find a way out of their hellish destiny.
Writer and director Simon Stone is joined set designer Lizzie Clachan, music by Stefan Gregory, lighting designer Nick Schlieper, and casting director Jessica Ronane CDG.
“The Oresteia is one of the theatre’s great foundational texts and it hasn’t lost any of its potency to this day. A family haunted by its part in an unjust war, the painful burden of inherited trauma and inter-generational conflict, the descent into an increasingly merciless vortex of violence: as long as humankind wages wars and as long as families tear themselves apart this story will remain painfully, cathartically relevant. It is with great excitement that we embark on bringing this tale into our times at the Bridge Theatre.” Simon Stone
The Oresteia is produced by London Theatre Company and Wouter van Ransbeek.
General Information
TBC
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
please note latecomers may not be admitted
This production contains mature themes. Initial age guidance is 15+. This may change as the production develops.
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 22 August, 2.30pm
Captioned: Saturday 29 August, 2.30pm
British Sign Language: Saturday 12 September, 2.30pm
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Cast
Mary-Louise Parker
THEATRE includes The Sound Inside at Studio 54 (Tony Award); How I Learned to Drive (Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards and an Outer Critics Circle nomination), Heisenberg and The Snow Geese at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre; Proof at the Booth Theatre (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and New York Magazine Awards), Prelude to a Kiss at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Theatre World and The Clarence Derwent Award); Four Dogs and a Bone at the New York City Centre; Babylon Gardens at the Circle Repertory Theatre; The Art of Success at the Manhattan Theatre Club; Communicating Doors at the Variety Arts Theatre, Reckless at the Biltmore Theatre (Tony nomination); Hedda Gabler at the American Airlines Theatre; Bus Stop at the Circle in the Square theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest at Hartford Stage; Up in Saratoga at the Old Globe Theatre; and Hay Fever at the Studio Arena Theatre.
TELEVISION includes The Institute, Weeds (Golden Globe award, four additional nominations, three Emmy nominations, six SAG nominations), Angels in America (Emmy, Golden Globe, and Satellite Awards), The West Wing (Emmy nomination), The Robber Bride (Emmy nomination), Mr. Mercedes, When We Rise, Billions, Sugar Time, Saint Maybe, and A Place for Annie.
FILM includes Omni Loop, Red Sparrow, Golden Exits, R.I.P.D, Red and Red 2, Behaving Badly, Pipe Dream, Chronically Metropolitan, Longtime Companion, Grand Canyon, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Naked in New York, The Client, Bullets over Broadway, Boys on the Side, Reckless, The Five Senses, Saved!, Romance & Cigarettes, Red Dragon, Solitary Man, and Howl.
May 2026
David Morrissey
THEATRE includes Hangmen at the Royal Court; and The Lover / The Collection at Theatre Royal Bath; The End of History at The Royal Court; King John at The Barbican; The School for Scandal and Peer Gynt at The National Theatre; Twelfth Night and Three Days of Rain at the Donmar Warehouse; Macbeth at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; Much Ado About Nothing in The West End; In a Dark Dark House at The Almedia; Julius Caesar at The Bridge.
TELEVISION includes Gone, Daddy Issues, Tip Toe, The Siege, The Walking Dead, Prime Target, Sherwood, Red Riding, State of Play (BAFTA nomination for Best Actor), The Missing, The City and The City, Britannia, Extant, and The Driver (for which David will also serve as Executive Producer), The Long Shadow, Inside No.9, The Singapore Grip, Good Omens, The 7.39, Our Mutual Friend, Clocking Off, Holding On, State of Play, The Deal, Viva Blackpool, Doctor Who, Sense and Sensibility, The Hollow Crown, True Love, The Field of Blood, South Riding, Thorne: Sleepyhead/Scaredy Cat, One Summer.
FILM includes the upcoming The Beatles biopics, Welcome to the Punch, Nowhere Boy, Centurion, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The Woman in Cabin 10, The Colour Room, Slingshot, Dampyr, Blitz, The One’s Below, Hilary & Jackie, Some Voices, Born Romantic, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Derailed, Stoned, The Reaping, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Basic Instinct 2.
May 2026
Tom Glynn-Carney
TRAINING Guildhall.
THEATRE includes All My Sons and The Glass Menagerie (also Broadway) in the West End; and The Ferryman (Evening Standard Theatre Emerging Talent Award) at the Royal Court (also Broadway).
TELEVISION includes House of the Dragon, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Mayflies, Domina, The Jetty, The Last Post, and Doing Money.
FILM includes Dunkirk, the upcoming The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, The King, Rialto, and Tolkien.
May 2026
Rosie Sheehy
TRAINING RADA.
THEATRE includes Guess How Much I Love You? (Olivier nomination) at the Royal Court; Machinal (Olivier nomination), The Brightening Air and The Hairy Ape at the Old Vic; An Ark at The Shed, New York; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King John and All’s Well That Ends Well (Ian Charleson nomination) at the RSC; Romeo and Julie at the National Theatre; An Interrogation at Hampstead; Uncle Vanya at Theatre Clwyd and Sheffield Theatres; The Wolves at Theatre Royal Stratford East; and Oleanna at Theatre Royal Bath.
TELEVISION includes the upcoming series of Black Doves, The Red King, Steeltown Murders, Wild Bill, and Chernobyl.
FILM includes Pillion and the upcoming The Custom of the Country.
May 2026
Lloyd Hutchinson
THEATRE includes A Christmas Carol at the Gate Theatre, Dublin; Sing Street and The Seagull at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Government Inspector at Chichester Festival Theatre; Dear England, To Kill a Mockingbird and King Lear in the West End; A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic; Light Falls at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Absolute Hell, Salome and The Plough and the Stars at the National Theatre; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Young Vic.
TELEVISION includes House of Guinness, Say Nothing, Dalgliesh, Black Shore, Bad Sisters, Romeo & Juliet (Sky Arts/National Theatre), White Gold, Manhunt, and Catastrophe.
FILM includes Mickey 17, Dead of Winter, The Salt Path, Ballywalter, The Little Stranger, and Florence Foster Jenkins.
May 2026
John Macmillan
THEATRE includes The Lady from the Sea at The Bridge; Phaedra at the National Theatre; The Lover / The Collection in the West End; Killer at Shoreditch Town Hall; Yerma (also at Park Avenue Armory, New York), The Member of the Wedding and In the Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic; The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios; Children’s Children and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Piranha Heights at Soho; Cymbeline for Cheek by Jowl (world tour); Macbeth at the Royal Exchange Manchester; and Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse and on Broadway (for the last two he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award).
TELEVISION includes Surface, One Day, The Cleaner, The Burning Girls, The Great, Ghosts, Extraordinary, House of the Dragon, The Nevers, Famalam, King Lear, Hang Ups, Back, Kiss Me First, Ordinary Lies, The Windsors, Chewing Gum, Hoff the Record, Critical, and Silk.
FILM includes The Woman in Cabin 10, The Scurry, Jay Kelly, The People We Hate at the Wedding, Maleficent, The Dark Knight Rises, and Hanna.
May 2026
Archie Madekwe
TRAINING LAMDA
THEATRE includes The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? In the West End; Further than the Furthest Thing at The Young Vic.
TELEVISION includes the upcoming Steal, See.
FILM includes Lurker, (Best Supporting Performance nomination), The Arrival, Saltburn, Gran Turismo, Midsommar, Teen Spirit, Voyagers.
May 2026
Alyth Ross
TRAINING Guildhall
THEATRE includes James V: Katherine, (Scottish Tour); In Everglade Studio at The Hope Theatre.
TELEVISION includes Counsels, Dalgliesh, Sister Boniface Mysteries, Traces, Bad Sisters 2, Last Light.
FILM includes Elsinore, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Peril at Pincer Point, Dirty Angel.
May 2026
Rakhee Thakrar
THEATRE includes Paradise Now! At The Bush; There or Here at the Park Theatre; Astronauts of Hartlepool at the VAULT Festival; Free Booze at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Retalisation at the Peepul Centre; Somewhere Over The Rainbow at the Phoenix Theatre.
TELEVISION includes Man Like Mobeen, Karen Pirie, I Jack White, Finders Keepers, Sex Education, Rules of the Game, The Girl Before, Criminal: UK, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Eastenders, Peep Show, The Jury, Doctors and Banglatown Banquet.
FILM includes September Says, Spirit of Place, Wonka, My Happy Ending, End-O, 23 Walks, Summerland, Running Naked, Juliet Remembered, and Page Eight.
May 2026
Seàn Donegan
TRAINING Guildhall
THEATRE includes The Constituent at The Old Vic; Dancing at Lughnasa at The National Theatre; The Enemy Within and The Winter’s Tale at the An Grianan Theatre; The Polar Express at Wise Owl Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakesperience; Nutcase at the Derry Playhouse and Alice in Wonderland for Combarro.
FILM includes Gardener’s Planet and Soulm8te.
May 2026
George Renshaw
TRAINING ArtsEd.
THEATRE includes Dorian at the Southwark Playhouse; Heathers at The Other Palace; Roman Holiday at Theatre Royal Bath and South Pacific at Sadlers Wells.
TELEVISION includes Doctors.
WORKSHOPS includes Martin Guerre for The Old Vic, Heathers for The Other Palace, Roman Holiday for Theatre Royal Bath and South Pacific for Sadlers Wells.
May 2026
Andy Umerah
THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Southwark Playhouse; I Love You, Now What? at the Pleasance and The Park Theatre; Crackers at Polka Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the East London Shakespeare Festival; The Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About The Shivers at the Unicorn ; Market Boy at the Union Theatre; Sweet Like Chocolate Boy at Brockley Jack Theatre; Great Again: The Musical with the Old Sole Theatre Company; The Litterati with Shrapnel Theatre Company.
TELEVISION includes Infamy, Ted Lasso, 4 O’Clock Club, Reckless and The Web Series.
May 2026
Emily Waters
TRAINING The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
THEATRE includes The School for Scandal at Midsummer Scene Festival; Cockfosters at the Southwark Playhouse; Spy Movie: The Play at the Pleasance; Bleak Expectations and The Play That Goes Wrong in the West End; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Guildford Shakespeare Company; Macbeth & Much Ado About Nothing UK Tour and The Rover & The Burial at Thebes at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
TELEVISION includes A Confession.
FILM includes Love Hurts.
May 2026
Kirsty Yates
TRAINING Birmingham University and Drama Studio London.
THEATRE includes The Canterbury Tales at the RSC; The Mousetrap in the West Ned; Mrs Warren’s Profession directed by Sir Peter Hall
TELEVISION includes Trial and Retribution
May 2026
Creative Team
Simon Stone
Aeschylus & Others
Wouter van Ransbeek
Lizzie Clachan
Theatre includes A Number at The Bridge; The Son at the Kiln (also West End); The Nico Project at Manchester International Festival and Melbourne Festival; Rutherford and Son, Absolute Hell, As You Like It, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Treasure Island, Edward II, Port and A Woman Killed With Kindness at the National Theatre; Cyprus Avenue (also Dublin, Belfast and New York), Fireworks, Adler & Gibb, Gastronauts, The Witness, Our Private Life, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Ladybird and Jumpy (also West End) at the Royal Court; Far Away, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Blindness (also New York, Toronto, Washington, DC, Mexico City, Amsterdam and UK tour) at the Donmar; Yerma (also New York and Berlin), The Life of Galileo, Macbeth and A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic; Tipping the Velvet, Contains Violence and Absolute Beginners at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Skriker at the Royal Exchange; Carmen Disruption at the Almeida; All My Sons at Regent’s Park; A Sorrow Beyond Dreams at Burgtheater, Vienna; Longing, The Trial of Ubu and Tiger Country at the Hampstead; The Rings of Saturn at Schauspiel, Cologne; Happy Days at the Crucible; Far Away at Bristol Old Vic; I’ll Be the Devil, Days of Significance and The American Pilot for the RSC; and The Architects, Money, Tropicana, Amato Saltone, Ether Frolics, Dance Bear Dance, The Ballad of Bobby Francois and The Tennis Show for Shunt, which she co-founded in 1998.
Opera includes The Mask of Orpheus, Orphée, Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus and Euridice for ENO; Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny Songspiel at the Royal Opera House; Nixon in China for Staatsoper Hanover; Jenufa for Nationale Opera & Ballet; La Traviata for Theater Basel/ENO; Pelléas et Mélisande for Teatr Wielki, Poland/ Festival d’Aix en Provence; Le Vin Herbé for Staatsoper Berlin; and Bliss for Staatsoper Hamburg.
October 2021