The great thing about going to see “Iphigeneia at Aulis”? It’s outdoors. The play opened yesterday in the courtyard of 220 York St. and will be playing again this Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 p.m. The ...

The Booker Prize-winning author of "Sacred Hunger" has been drawn to secret paths and hidden alternatives since childhood, stating that his fiction often begins with "the pressure of a secret, a ...

To placate the gods and save the expedition, Agamemnon is resigned to having Iphigeneia’s throat cut on an altar, with all due ceremony. The wind relents; the rest of the long and gory adventure ...

Greek lives, however, are another matter entirely. Consider the case of Iphigeneia, as told by Euripides, that most irreverent of the three great Greek tragedians. She’s back, and this time she ...

The scenery sets up a modern context for Rebecca Bayla Taichman’s penetrating and compelling production of Euripides’ “Iphigeneia at Aulis,” the ancient/modern antiwar play that closes the ...

After experiencing a murderous nightmare, Iphigeneia prays to the goddess Diana that she might one day be reunited with her brother, Orestes. Elektra's household may be one of the most unhappy in ...

It is also the inclusion of a plot motif with a long heritage. Its most obvious correlative is the Greek tale of Iphigeneia, a small but significant component of the Trojan War myth cycle.

In the first play, Agamemnon, the general arrives with blood on his hands: that of the victims in Troy and that of his daughter Iphigeneia, whom he sacrificed to the gods so that the winds would ...

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