Ancient Greek dramatist Euripides’ play “Iphigenia in Aulis” could seem remote. What have we in common with a father who sacrifices his daughter to the gods in exchange for better weather that will ...
Die einen sitzen im antiken Griechenland herum und warten. Die anderen rennen im Jahr 2015 um ihr Leben. Die einen sind Soldaten und heißen Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaos. Die anderen sind einfache ...
Euripides has a God problem, too. His plays are about the gravest failings of humans but the humans are constantly being manipulated by immortals. The story of Iphigenia in Aulis, his final work, from ...
The program for Court Theatre’s Iphigenia in Aulis features a chart tracing the house of Atreus through five generations, from Zeus on down to his three miserable great-great-great-grandchildren. And ...
Would you kill your own daughter as a sacrifice to the gods? Of course not. Civilization has evolved from the fifth century before Christ — an Athenian era when those famous experiments in democracy ...
Most theaters would consider it a win to have just one moment in a show that's so viscerally arresting, it causes many to put hands over hearts and gasp. "Iphigenia at Aulis," the Euripidean tragedy ...
"Iphigenia in Aulis" is an appalling, ghastly story. In 405 B.C., the Greek playwright Euripides had the decency to dress it up with domestic melodrama leading to a bizarre happy ending. Contemporary ...
ACT ONE:The action begins five years after the Trojan War. Back in Aulis, Iphigeneia's father, Agamemnon, had intended to sacrifice her. But her life was saved by the goddess Diana. Now in Tauris ...
War is stupid and wasteful. That's the gist of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, and 25-odd centuries haven't dulled its message. Although it occasionally veers into overstatement, this production makes ...
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