MARIANNE MACDONALD   


Marianne MacDonald
   Nationality:
Canadian
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Plays by Marianne MacDonald

MARIANNE MACDONALD
Liar Liar
1st Produced:
1992
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Synopsis:
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MARIANNE MACDONALD
Oresteia
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2007
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
7
Parts Other:
doubling easy. 1 male chorus, 2 female
Notes: Original Playwright - Aeschylus. Translated by J Michael Walton and Marianne MacDonald. This is a new translation of Aeschylus The Oresteia, commissioned by Nick Hern Books as an addition to the Greek tragedy section of Drama Classics, others of which include Sophocles Antigone (tr. McDonald) and Electra (tr. McDonald and Walton), and Euripides Andromache (tr. McDonald and Walton), Bacchae (tr. McLeish), Electra (tr. McDonald and Walton), Hecuba (tr. McDonald), Medea (tr. McLeish) and Women of Troy (tr. McLeish).
Synopsis: The Oresteia is the only surviving trilogy from the classical repertoire. The first play, Agamemnon, deals with the return home from Troy to Argos of the victorious leader of the Greek army, only to meet his death at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. Choephori (Libation-Bearers), set several years later, describes the vengeance exacted by Agamemnon's exiled son, Orestes, on his mother and her lover, Aegisthus. In the third play, The Eumenides, (The Kindly Ones), Orestes, pursued by the Furies roused by his mother's ghost, stands trial for matricide in Athens at a newly-created court of justice and is acquitted by the casting vote of the goddess Athene. The thwarted Furies are persuaded to become benign deities and the rule of law supersedes the primitive rule of personal vendetta.
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