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The Fall of the House of Atreus is a bold retelling of the myth of the House of Atreus its fall and with it the birth of modern justice, told across six individual plays: Hippodamia, Aerope, Helen, Iphigenia, Clytemnestra and Electra.

 

The Fall of the House of Atreus sextet shows how from the point of view of the key women in the myths, how Atreus's brutal usurpation of the throne of Mycenae is punished and brings in a new world of justice.

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Each individual play within the sextet can be staged as a single contained play, or as the complete sextet for a fuller narrative. 

 

Featuring strong central female roles in all six plays, the plays explore issues about around husbands and wives, mother and daughters, love, loyalty, fidelity, sacrifice, loss, abandonment, revenge, justice and pain, grief and anger, and how these destructive forces can end in possible redemption, and finding light in the darkness.

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Click on the play's image for further information about an individual play.

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To find out further about the sextet, or if you are a producer or production company wanting to produce all or one of play - simply click here to get in touch