Word: iphigenia
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...Leader of the Furies, exudes menace and dances wonderfully; Scottie Thompson ’05, as the doomed Trojan seer Cassandra, is eerie and compelling. Sara L. Bartel ’06 knows how to tug heartstrings while also conjuring a fatalistic dignity as the young Iphigenia, and the scene in which her father sacrifices her is legitimately horrifying...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Iphigenia" at 7 p.m. This isMichael Cacoyannis' most realistic adaptation ofthe Greek tragedies. Filmed in natural settingsclose to the sea shore, this adaptation ofEuripides' dramatic text reveals the director'smastery, as well as the great performances,especially that of Irene Papas, the most prominentcontemporary Greek tragedienne...
...makes her case in Les Atrides, a nine-hour cycle of four productions embracing Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides and the Oresteia trilogy of ! Aeschylus. Two years in the making -- including eight months of rehearsal -- the shows just completed a largely sold-out three-week run in Montreal and are virtually sold out for the troupe's New York City debut, ending Oct. 11. Mnouchkine, who works in an abandoned munitions factory in Paris and refuses to perform in a conventional theater, took Montreal spectators to a hockey arena. In New York, sponsors had to remove 375 military vehicles from...
...vacillating disloyalty to Greece. Achilles (Mike Gwilym) warns that the troops are restive and mutinous after the long delay. Affected by his brother's torment, Menelaus suddenly shifts his adamant position and suggests giving up the entire expedition to Troy. But the fates have decreed otherwise; Iphigenia (Judy Buxton) and Clytemnestra (Janet Suzman) have arrived...
...Greek tragedies move through pitch points of passion, moments when men look into the abyss of self-revelation. In Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, which begins this cycle, there are three pitch points. The first comes as Agamemnon reasons with his daughter about the need for her death. Shrapnel sensitively conveys the deep inner anguish of a man torn between duty to his country and love for his child. As Clytemnestra, Suzman moves through a parabola of feelings, marking her again as one of the finest actresses on the English-speaking stage. And as Buxton reaches the heartbreaking conclusion that...