In one of those illuminating coincidences that sometimes bless clever artistic directors, Rupert Goold’s season of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides began at a time when many newspaper headlines contained the phrase “Greek tragedy”.Director Robert Icke’s staging of Oresteia, the Aeschylus trilogy – which will be followed by new versions of the Bakkhai and Medea of Euripides, directed by James Macdonald and by Goold himself, respectively – is set in modern dress in a present-day democracy, which is unspecified, although there is a general feel of Western politics in the years since Tony Blair and George W. Bush attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. Agamemnon, a smooth leader with a line in religiose rhetoric and suits that suggest at least personal prosperity, i