Sample
Tragedy Videos
I.
Aeschylus Oresteia
(trilogy), Sir Peter Hall production using masks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT259CRSZfw&feature=related
Excerpt from Agamemnon: the chorus of old men tell’s Agamemnon’s story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPikNIfBGIo&feature=related
Agamemnon goes into the palace at Clytemnestra’s invitation (from Agamemnon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyeAF0Tg4GE
Excerpt from The Libation Bearers (Orestes watches the libation bearers and his sister Electra bring sacraments to his father’s grave)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9naVRmmlbes&feature=related
Selection from The Eumenides (“Show us your hands”): The Chorus of Furies demands to see if Orestes’ hands show signs of his having murdered his mother
II.
Sophocles’ Antigone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcZ7WIsKXs
Danced performance of Sophocles' Ode to Man, a chorus
from the Antigone. Choreographed by Miriam Rother, based on images of the human figure in ancient vase
painting and statuary. Recitation in Ancient Greek
directed by A. P. David, according to the new theory of the Greek accent.
See http://danceofthemuses.org
III.
Iphigenia in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrv-IuUy5xE&feature=related
Iphigenia begs to live (1977 film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxzvn_Rw_hI&feature=related
Iphigenia accepts her fate (1977 film)
IV.
Medea
(Euripides)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pK3ggH3wrQ
Scene from A Dream of Passion (1978)
Juxtaposes a performance in Greek theater starring Melina Mercouri as Medea with a modern story of a woman (Ellen Burstyn) who killed her children. Has very interesting chorus and music. The story has been filmed many times (most recently by Lars von Trier) and there are also dance and opera versions (selections available on Youtube of each).
V. The
Trojan Women (Euripdes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9sAriamSpU
Theatrical trailer for the 1971 film version starring Katherine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave—a strongly anti-war, and in particular anti-Vietnam-War, version. Very “theatrical” in style but done in original Greek landscape settings with great actors. Many other scenes are available on Youtube as well.