Almost since its inception, the National Theatre has been staging Greek tragedy, beginning with an adaptation of Sophocles’s Philoctetes in 1964 that starred Colin Blakely. To coincide with Indhu Rubasingham’s first production as director of the National Theatre – a very free interpretation of Euripides’s Bacchae by Nima Taleghani – the theatre is putting on an exhibition about five previous National Theatre productions of Greek tragedy (9 September–February 2026). Visitors will be able to see costume designs, props and rehearsal footage – and listen to audio recordings – from The Oresteia (1981), Iphigenia at Aulis (2004), Antigone (2012), Medea (2014) and Paradise (2021) to get a sense of different approaches to staging Greek tragedy over the years. For anyone unable to attend the exhibition in person, a digital version is available via the Bloomberg Connects app.
Find out more from the National Theatre’s website.
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