Details

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...

Cast/Performers

Suzanne Marie, Ben Hale, James Barnes, Andrew Strafford-Baker, Alec Bennie

Creatives/Company

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translation: Roy Pascal
Producer: The Rose Playhouse
Director: Pamela Schermann
Lighting: Petr Vocka
Costume: Gillian Steventon
Sound: Philip Matejtschuk