Romanian director Silviu Purcarete's production of Aeschylus's Oresteia must seem simply unmissable to anyone who has seen his Danaides when it came to Dublin a couple of years ago. A bloody tale of murder and revenge in the royal family of Argos in the wake of the fall of Troy, it has never, they say, been performed in Ireland before - and it is 2,500 years old.
Julius Caesar, Lyric Theatre, November 27th- 29th, 8 p.m.
Italy's Societas Rafaello Sanzio have gone back to the Latin authors in their exploration of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and have produced a highly original work on the nature of rhetoric, which is rich in daring imagery, if at times obscure.
Northern Star, First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, November 9th-13th, 8 p.m.
Stephen Rea directs Stewart Parker's famous play about Henry Joy McCracken - which is really about the possibility of republican pluralism in this country. A Tinderbox production with Field Day and the Belfast Festival, it should prove absolutely electrifying in the Rosemary Street Church, which was a hotbed of activism in 1798.
The Emperor Jones, BT Studio, November 20th-24th, 8 p.m.
Such hushed reverance is accorded the Wooster Group from New York's Lower East Side, that it almost becomes irritating, but still, no theatre fan will want to miss their interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, one of the first plays ever to give a black actor a lead role - although here the part will be played by a white actress in boot black.
La Pantera Imperial, Stranmillis College Theatre, November 27th-28th, 8 p.m.
El Pais, having seen Catalonian Carles Santos's show, was left bleating about the "incandescent eroticism" of Bach. The music is theatricalised, with the aid of mobile pianos and pianolas, singers and violinists, and the show left many Edinburgh Festival critics gob-smacked.
