Overview
Character Name
Orestes
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Before a palace in Argos, Ancient Greece.
Analysis
Orestes is the son of Queen Clytemnestra and King Agamemnon, who ruled Mycenae and commanded the Greeks in the Trojan War. His sisters are Electra and Chrysothemis. After Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, killed Agamemnon, Electra sent Orestes away to Phocis to be
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