Iphigenia Reimagined
"Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other." Richard Siken, "Detail of the Fire" from War of the Foxes IPHIGENIA REIMAGINED The first stitch of The Oresteia’s three-act tapestry begins with eagles. Two of them, circling wingtip to wingtip above the beaches of Aulis, sharpening their sight towards the scene below. In the BBC version of Aeschylus’s famed tragedy, the throng of soldiers at Aulis itching to sail to war against Troy are beginning to brawl within themselves. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the man who has stepped up to marsha...