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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Iphigenia Quartet

The Iphigenia Quartet

Bird, Caroline
Raczka, Lulu
El-Bushra, Suhayla

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

Plays

ISBN10: 1783193204
ISBN13: 9781783193202
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 27 2016
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch.

Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. To raise the winds to send his fleet to Troy, Agamemnon is commanded by the gods to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. But his deceit of his wife, Clytemnestra and the killing of his child, will end up tearing him and everything around him to pieces.

Euripides' story of a father moved to murder his daughter, Iphigenia at Aulis, is one that has been reinvented and retold anew throughout history. The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK's most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird, Suhayla El Bushra, Lulu Raczka, and Chris Thorpe - create explosive responses to this classical tragedy. Each play is a reimagining this story of familial catastrophe from the differing perspectives of the key characters in the play: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and the Chorus.

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