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Agamemnon & The Fall of the House of Usher

Agamemnon & The Fall of the House of Usher $16.99, $15.29 (10% off)

Steven Berkoff

Published by AmberLane Press

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Adapted from Aeschylus' great tragedy, Berkoff's version of Agamemnon is about the heat of battle, fatigue, the marathon, and the obscenity of modern and future wars

In The Fall of the House of Usher, he takes Poe's horrific tale and - as one French critic described it - explodes the text to create a new form that retains the central core

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"Stephen Berkoff's characteristically idiosyncratic version strips the story to the bone [and] reduces the crumbling, monstrous house of the title to Roderick and Madeleine Usher's incestuous bed, and a lavish dinner party to a hilarious episode with a tub of sorbet" ~ Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out

"...just when his exaggerated and often comic expressionism seems to be going too far, Berkoff will return to the startling imagery of the original, seamlessly combining Poe's often purple Gothic prose with his own spiky punk poetry ... The Fall of the House of Usher is an intriguing, if slightly removed, experience that continually excites the senses" ~ Oliver Jones, What's On

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