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The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on is return from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Athens, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives to rescue her...T01386510832Translation Roy Pascal. Producer The Rose Playhouse. Director Pamela Schermann. Lighting Petr Vocka. Costume Gillian Steventon. Sound Philip Matejtschuk. Performer Suzanne Marie. Performer Ben Hale. Performer James Barnes. Performer Andrew Strafford-Baker. Performer Alec Bennie. | |
| 16 Jun 15 to 4 Jul 15 | The Rose Playhouse, Inner London :: V0290483190 listing details L92517605 |
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