Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue presents The Oresteia
Book by Debra Buonaccorsi, Music & Lyrics by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams
If the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus had gone on tour with Led Zeppelin, Woody Guthrie and a carnie troupe, this is what he would have written. A tale of blood, guts and vengeance, Aeschylus' Oresteia recharged. Rowdy, raucous, loud and literate.
Production History
Keegan Theatre, DC, 2009
Capital Fringe Festival, DC 2008, co-production with Spooky Action Theatre
both directed by Debra Buonaccorsi
Press
The Washington Post, July 17, 2008
The spirit of fringe is rock-and-roll, so it's fitting that one of the most sizzling acts thus far in the third Capital Fringe Festival is an hour-long ramble through Greek tragedy set to amplified music... nothing came close to the energy, imagination and discipline of this carnival-style rock show.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602788.html
Washington City Paper, July 17, 2008
Could the Revue crew really get through all three of the House of Atreus plays in the advertised 70 minutes? Turns out I’d underestimated the summarizing power of, for instance, the tart shorthand with which a vengeful Elektra, plotting the death of her matricide mother Clytaemnestra, sums up her thoughts about the long-banished brother she hopes will return to deliver the vengeful blow: “I hope he’s not a pussy.”
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/338859/hip-shot-dizzy-miss-lizzie/