Locked away in her childhood bedroom, Iphigenia awaits her execution and recounts: It all began with her great-great-grandfather Tantalus and a family curse.
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Two generations later, her father Agamemnon sparked the Trojan War by abducting Helen and incurred the wrath of the goddess Artemis by killing a sacred doe. As punishment, she sent a calm: only the sacrifice of Iphigenia could appease her.
In her isolation, Iphigenia begins to question her fate – and the system that brought it about. Can a father who loses himself in his military duty still love? Is there a way out of the narrative that knows women only as victims, saints or witches? Who is Iphigenia beyond patriarchal myths and external attributions? Actress and author Lilly-Marie Vogler tears down the curtain on the ancient myth and opens a new, feminist chapter in the 2,400-year-old
history of its reception.
- By: Lilly-Marie Vogler
- Directed by: Nils Strunk
- Starring Lilly-Marie Vogler
- Written by Lilly-Marie Vogler
- Staging & Music: Nils Strunk
- Set design & video: Christiane Hilmer
- Assistant Director, Stage Manager & Stage Supervisor: Mira Knaupe
