Simon Stone's Adaptation of The Oresteia Will Play London's Bridge Theatre

Simon Stone's Adaptation of The Oresteia Will Play London's Bridge Theatre

Stone will also direct the classic work this summer.

March 27, 2026 By Andrew Gans

London Theatre Company's new production of The Oresteia—written and directed by Simon Stone (after Aeschylus and others)—will begin previews at the Bridge Theatre July 2 prior to an official opening July 14.\

The production, presented in collaboration with Wouter van Ransbeek, will play an 11-week limited engagement through September 19. Casting will be announced at a later date.

Australian theatre, opera, and film director Stone, known for his radical reimagining of classic works, including Yerma and Phaedra, previously directed The Lady From the Sea at the Bridge.

About the upcoming project, the director said in a statement, "The Oresteia is one of the theatre’s great foundational texts and it hasn’t lost any of its potency to this day. A family haunted by its part in an unjust war, the painful burden of inherited trauma and inter-generational conflict, the descent into an increasingly merciless vortex of violence: as long as humankind wages wars and as long as families tear themselves apart this story will remain painfully, cathartically relevant. It is with great excitement that we embark on bringing this tale into our times at the Bridge Theatre.”

Stone will be joined by the same creative team that brought The Lady From the Sea to life: set designer Lizzie Clachan, costume designer Mel Page, composer Stefan Gregory, lighting designer Nick Schlieper, and casting director Jessica Ronane.

On this side of the Atlantic, Stone's adaptation of Medea, originally with ITA Amsterdam, played the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2020, starring Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale.

The Oresteia is produced by London Theatre Company and Wouter van Ransbeek.

For ticket information visit BridgeTheatre.co.uk.