Review: Agamemnon by City on a Hill* Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on January 28, 2011

Kimberley Mead as Clytemnestra had impressively mastered the language and joined it to gesture and presence. She gave the queen a lively, alluring murderous intelligence in which every syllable had meaning.

Agamemnon as produced by City on a Hill* Productions and directed by David J. Boss is a satisfyingly crunchy rendition of the first part of Aeschylus' Orestia. In this season of Academy Award nominations it might be useful to note that the trilogy won the annual competition at the Greater Dionysian Festival in Athens in 458 B.C.   In a chronological sense it's not "the first play in the Western canon," as stated in the program.  Aeschylus wrote …

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