Now Northern Broadsides combine a small chorus with monochrome animations to reimagine the work as a live graphic novel with Aeschylean overtones.

In fact, the Soviets became caught up in a tragedy of Aeschylean scale, whose unintended consequences have reshaped the world.

It maddened and sickened him, the very thought of his helplessness, so Aeschylean in its torturing complications, so ironic in its refinement of cruelty.