This is a both contemporary and respectful adaptation of Euripides’ great, classic tragedy, staged for the BBC in 1990 by the British director and dramatist Don Taylor. Shortly after his death in 2003, the version was produced with great acknowledgment at the National Theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell. It is a tragedy, digging into the mythical material surrounding the house Aulis, and it is simultaneously an intense accusation against supremacy, arrogance and inhumanity. Iphigenia is young, beautiful and the daughter of Agamemnon. His most precious possession, which he must sacrifice in order to go to war for freedom and justice. This is a tale about truth, about how the truth is always the first sacrifice in war, when the official story is to be written. However, the story also tackles responsibility and the difficult existential decisions behind the human actions during war.
