Theatre review: The Rest Is Action
It will wreck a lot of people’s heads, but if you can find your way in to The Company’s deconstruction of classic Greek tragedy it’s a very rewarding experience. Conceptually, the piece is a ‘modern’ retelling of Aeschylus’s Oresteia plays. This show is a trilogy in which assorted family members — Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, and Electra — bloodily murder one another.
In the self-reflexive vein of contemporary theatre, the torch-carrying actors onstage, decked out like the Famous Five in shorts and t-shirts, discuss the roles they are playing, muddle the distinction between reality and fiction, and examine the loss of meaning in human gesture.
