Word: clytemnestra
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...addition to playing several lead roles, notably Sandy in “Grease,” Clytemnestra in the Visting Director’s project “The Flies” and Ophelia in “Hamlet,” Friedman has performed in two Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Visiting Directors’ Projects and one professional A.R.T. work. She is grateful to have taken advantage of professional theater...
There is no doubt that Sartre’s original adaptation of the Greek mythology is brilliant. The play tells the story of Orestes and his sister. After an affair between their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus results in the death of their father Agamemnon, the siblings avenge him by killing the responsible couple, who had taken over the kingdom of Argos, imposing their guilt upon the people in the form of perpetual mourning and black clothing. Sartre cleverly ties this in with existentialism. The guilt does not belong to the people but they are forced to express...
...Flies” is a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orestes, a prince who returns to his native city of Argos only to find that the gods have been punishing the city for failing to stop his mother, Queen Clytemnestra, from murdering her first husband. The play centers on Orestes’ attempt to challenge the gods, and his decision about whether it is easier to live a predetermined life of penitence or to accept the responsibility of choosing one’s own destiny. Jean-Paul Sartre adapted the myth into a play in 1943 to create...
Tali B. Friedman ’10, who plays Clytemnestra, appreciates this approach to acting and learning a character. “When I started, I was looking at her as a villain, but over the last couple weeks I’ve come to sympathize with her. She made a bad choice and it all came crashing around her head,” she says...
...didn’t want Clytemnestra to be the evil woman,” Broadwater adds. “The more we find ways to understand who she is and feel her pain, the more we empathize with her, so that she seems like a real human being...