The PlayFinder™

THE STORY: A retelling of the Greek legend of Orestes, this is an attack on the senselessness of war. This Orestes is an indifferent man, completely unsympathetic to his father, Agamemnon, and his warlike ambitions. Unlike his sister, Electra, Orestes has no burning desire for vengeance when Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murder Agamemnon. He freely accepts his banishment to Athens with his friend, Phylades, and there falls in love and is about to wed Athenian. The fates, however, have ordained that Orestes play the hero and avenge his father’s death and so unwillingly yet hopeless, he becomes what is decreed.