The question of Greek plays is an interesting one.
Gallery Players in Brooklyn just presented a run of Aeschylus' THE ORESTEIA, which is three plays that essentially tell a continuing story. Galley chose to present the plays individually on week nights and all together as a four hour single presentation, with two intermissions, on weekends.
I believe that these works are generally considered separate plays, but part of a cycle. And I think they do stand alone in their way, but I'd never have recommended to anyone to just see part of the cycle. I think audiences would get so much more out of the individual parts by seeing how the story functions as a whole. |
