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 |
T2003713519UK Premiere. Goethe is the supreme genius of modern German iterature. The Iphigenia story has occupied great creative minds through the ages from Euripides to Racine. This is the first time Goethe's Iphigenia will have been seen by a British audience.Producer Ustinov Studio Company. Translation Meredith Oakes. Director Laurence Boswell. Design Ti Green. Lighting Ben Ormerod. Sound Fergus O'Hare. Performer Peter Bramhill. Performer Adam Jackson-Smith. Performer Frances McNamee. Performer Laura Rees. Performer Milo Twomey. Performer Samantha Robinson. | |
| 21 Sep 11 to 20 Dec 11 | Theatre Royal, Bath :: V854 listing details L267036185 |
