Aristo
By: Martin Sherman
Contributors: Evans, Peter, 1933 December 10-2012
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Drama; Last years
Description: 'Aristo', based on the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, is an explosive account of how those in positions of enormous power and wealth often live lives detached from the realities and moralities of everyday existence. After a notorious affair with the opera singer Maria Callas, Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the US President John F. Kennedy, in 1968. Commented on by a gossiping Greek chorus, 'Aristo' is a portrait of the complex and sometimes dark entanglements of their families, his relationships with Jacqueline and the scorned Maria, and the tragedy of his son Alexandros. Aristo, like Onassis himself, is charming, charismatic, and inescapably sinister. Based in part on Peter Evans' book 'Nemesis', Aristo premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2008.
Notes: "Based on material from Nemesis by Peter Evans."