About the Show/Event
Information for Girl on an Altar at The Kiln (formerly Tricycle Theatre), Inner London (Streamed/Broadcast). A re-telling of the ancient myth of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. A girl child is sacrificed on an altar for the wind to change so the Achaeans can sail to Ilium. Her father Agamemnon is to blame. Following his return ten years later, his wife Clytemnestra wants justice for her daughter.
Performers Adjoa Andoh, Ayesha Antoine, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Finbar Lynch, Joseph Mydell, Patrick O'Kane.
Author Marina Carr.