Word: clytemnestras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Agamemnon soon yields to his brother's urgings and his own ambition; he sends for Iphigenia with a note explaining that she is to come to Aulis to marry the young king Achilles (who is ignorant of his role in the plan). Iphigenia arrives with her mother, Clytemnestra, but it is not long before she discovers what her true function is to be. A tortured Agamemnon and sorrowful Menelaus can do nothing to stop what has been started; Calchas informs the army of his prophecy, and the soldiers cry out for Iphigenia's death. Achilles, angered...
...rendering it as simply as possible. What has been cut from the dialogue is most always conveyed visually, usually through the expressions of the actors. Cacoyannis drops the chorus, the most glaringly unrealistic element of the play, although fragments of its lines occasionally turn up in the songs Clytemnestra sings to Iphigenia, or in the infrequent exclamations of a group of girls travelling with...
...respectfully into two lines, as Agamemnon and Menelaus ride through. Suddenly, a man keels over in the path of the horses. He is duly removed. This is to show you how hot it is. Or take the scene in Argos, when a messenger delivers the letter from Agamemnon to Clytemnestra. She leans out, over the beautiful mountains, and calls, "Iph-i-gen-ia!" (Echo: "Iphigenia, Iphigenia.') The camera zooms down the mountain, music swelliing, Iphigenia whirling around into the frame, arms outstretched, and suddenly we are in the midst of The Sound of Music. Cacoyannis also enjoys choreographing heads...
Irene Papas as Clytemnestra could never be glowering passion, a force of will that can crush her hysterical husband and, when driven, explode into she literally raises a standstorm. The final shot in her husband, practically whispering, "Just wait Costa Kozakos is a weakling caught between his fierce ambition and festering conscience; the actor, of the man, his impotence, with remarkable pathos. Carras's Menelaus, a weasely little fellow who can nonetheless rouse himself to noble, if ineffectual inch a Greek hero, from his physical splendor to that touch of reckless, defiant pride...
...wife Clytemnestra (also played by Smith) has taken a lover, Aegisthus (also played by Zakkai). Clytemnestra bears an implacable hatred toward Agamem non for the blood sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia. The king had courted the gods' favoring winds for the voy age to Troy. Agamemnon and Cassandra enter the House of Atreus to be brutally butchered by Clytemnestra...