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As a new production of Aeschylus' Oresteia opens today, its writer and director Robert Icke and legal drama writer Peter Moffatt debate their enduring appeal.

Robert Icke describes Aeschylus' Oresteia as the closest we can get to original Athenian drama as one of the earliest surviving plays and thinks the reason legal drama sustains over time is that the viewer remains unsatasfied.

"The procedure is always unsatisfying... you know it's always more complicated than guilty or innocent... you are made aware that this is human behavior and it's really complicated," he said.

Peter Moffatt thinks legal dramas retain their audience as they are interested in the final outcome.

"The stakes are always high, if the defendant is convicted they're probably going to go to prison for the rest of their lives... so an audience understands that it matters from the beginning," he said.