Word: clytemnestras
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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...
...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...
Aeschylus' Oresteia: The Classical Greek Trilogy of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Orestes. A new adaptation directed by Joann Green and performed by the Cambridge Ensemble at 115 Mass Ave. Playing Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm through Feb. 26. Tickets are $3 and $4. For info, call...
...selection of secular places from the Renaissance to the present, including the American premiere of Clytemnestra's Argument by Elizabeth Gomm; Radcliffe Choral Society; Paine Hall...