Word: clytemnestra
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...truths in this drama by Euripides are still as fresh as open wounds. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter for the Greek cause is a moving lament for all who die young in war. As Clytemnestra, Irene Papas brings the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief to the stage...
Moral Ambiguity. Agamemnon sends a letter to his wife Clytemnestra (Irene Papas) telling her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis under the ruse that the girl is to become the bride of Achilles. Abruptly seized by fatherly love, Agamemnon dispatches a second letter bidding Clytemnestra to stay at home. But this message is intercepted by Helen's husband Menelaus, who rails at Agamemnon for daring to dream of putting his daughter's life before Greek victory. This raises a question of moral ambiguity that runs through the play: Is this a war for a strumpet, or is it against...
Once the two women appear on the scene, they dominate the play perceptibly and strike plangent chords of passion and pity. Clytemnestra is the first to learn of her raddled husband's purpose. She spews at him the clotted venom of years of pent-up hate in a bad marriage; yet what chokes her spirit is anguish for her child...
...best film performances (Electra, Zorba the Greek), Irene Papas, playing Clytemnestra, is an actress of chained intensity. She bears herself with the regal poise of a statue by Praxiteles. Though her brows are as dark as doom, her profile is chiseled in luminous Pentelic marble. What she brings to Iphigenia is something that seldom exists on any stage: the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief. When Clytemnestra learns that Iphigenia cannot be saved, she utters a howl of desolation that seems to be torn from her womb, as if a cycle of pain that had begun...
August 1980. Perched on his polar-orbiting platform 200 miles above the earth, the Weatherman in the Sky begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have...