The play the production...THE BLOG (the why and synopsis)

It was Spring of the year 2010. I'd been lving in Ellensburg, Washington for about a year and a half. A student of the undergraduate program for theatre arts (generalist). I had walked down from my upstairs room to the living room; upon my descent, my roommate and his partners from another class had gathered. Names will not be stated, but of the partners had put in the DVD cinematic TROY (Wolfgang Peterson 2004). After watching the first fifteen minutes the partner turned to my roommate and said, "I imagine our version of the scene like that." Really? I hate to say it, but I only wish to have forgotten what I had heard. Until this production of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus had fallen into my laps and let me say it is completely nothing like the movie TROY.

First off, I would like to ask for those who know what I am referring to when I speak of the movie TROY to forget the movie and learn the real literature. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is explained from this excerpt from Oxford Reference Online...

"...in Greek myth, son of Atreus, brother of Menelaus, husband of Clytemnestra, king of Mycenae, or Argos, and leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. He is represented in Homer's Iliad as a valiant fighter, a proud and passionate man, but vacillating in purpose and easily discouraged. His quarrel with Achilles is the mainspring of the poem's action. The Odyssey tells how, on his return from Troy, he was feasted in the palace of his wife's lover, and there murdered by them both, together with his captive Cassandra. This story is retold by later authors, with minor variants."

Obvious there's a huge difference in how the film interprets Troy in relations to Agamemnon. In the film Agamemnon is slain by Achilles and the other real-literature themes are lost. So as a praise to the literature it intrigues me to write a production blog on the real literature story. Thank you for joining me and my thought process on the greek tragedy of Agamemnon.

References

"Agamemnon"  The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Ed. M.C. Howatson and Ian Chilvers. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  Central Washington University.  1 November 2010  http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t9.e89

MacNeice, Louis. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. New York: Brace and Companu, 1936.