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Orestia Turkey: see Edirne . ... Read more

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...passed to Greece by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), but was again restored to Turkey by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The city's many mosques include the great mosque of Selim II (completed 1574). The city was also called Orestia by Byzantine writers. Read more

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	Paris Theatre, Summer 2008 Magazine article from: Western European Stages; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the best productions I've seen in this new century. He chose to conclude his first season at the Odon with a staging of The Orestia in his own translation. I'm sorry to report that this ambitious project proved disappointing. As always with Py, the work was... Read more
	Another viewpoint: (Canada's role in recovery of the attacks of September 11, 2001). Magazine article from: LawNow; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...important for us to look carefully at its implications. Also instructive is Rob Normey's Law and Literature analysis of the Orestia, a trilogy of Greek plays from 458 B.C., that trace the move from vengeance to justice in Athenian society, a move the whole... Read more
	Ellen McLaughlin: women in flight. (actress-playwright on 'Tongue of a Bird')(People) Magazine article from: American Theatre; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Narrow Bed (which she began as an exercise: two women talking as she and her friends actually do) and her recent take on the Orestia, Iphigenia and Other Daughters. The latter play features the ultimate resentful daughter/cold mother standoff in a chilling... Read more
	`The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon' Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/10/2000; ; 569 words ; ...this three-hour revisionist odyssey into American history_at once hallucinatory and hellish_is a sort of Oedipus meets the Orestia cycle in a 19th century frontier world. And in following one man's feverish, often violent, and ultimately revelatory search... Read more
	MADISON -- R.J. Julia Booksellers is launching [Derived Headline] Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 2/17/2008; ; 186 words ; ...and costs $50, which includes the price of the book, coffee and refreshments. Here are the rest of the books: April 10, "The Orestia," by Aeschylus, discussion led by Yale political science and humanities lecturer Justin Zaremby; May 8, Plato's "The Apology... Read more
	UNCG THEATRE THROUGH THE YEARS.(SPECIAL) Newspaper article from: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC); 9/29/1997; 700+ words ; ...to offer the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in theater. In 1974, Middleton's UNCG production of The Orestia was one of 10 national winners in the American College Theatre Festival. The play was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington... Read more
	[ APPLAUD 2005 ]; [MEGA GUIDE ] Newspaper article from: The Press; 8/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...963-0870 or www. courttheatre.org.nz. HAGLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Hagley Ave): Agamemnon by Steven Berkoff. The first of the Orestia trilogy, a powerful story of battle, fatigue power and revenge. (to Aug 5), 8-9.20pm. The Open Stage. $15/$12. Phone 364-5155... Read more
	what's on sampler Newspaper article from: The Press; 7/30/2005; 700+ words ; ...of Agamemnon is being presented by the Hagley Theatre Company during the first week of August. Agamemnon, the first of the Orestia trilogy, is the powerful story of power and revenge, and in Berkoff's adaptation the use of contemporary language and images... Read more
	Trouble with the king's knee Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 3/27/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Rutter was set along by poet Tony Harrison when he worked in three of his National Theatre adaptations - The Mysteries, The Orestia and The Trackers Of Oxyrhynchus - written for the Northern voice. Harrison taught him about "using the dignity of my own voice... Read more
	Obituary Jocelyn Herbert Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/9/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Room (both directed by Lindsay Anderson). Then in 1981 Peter Hall asked her to design masks for his epic production of The Orestia at the National Theatre. The production turned out to be hugely popular and it toured the world: part of the play's power was... Read more

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