Iphigenia

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The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the childs throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnons wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his fathers death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives...

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""Goethe's version (translated by Meredith Oakes) is a great improvement on the tone and assumptions in the original Greek" - The Times "In Meredith Oakes' nimble new translation, this is a drama well worth rediscovering" - Observer "There's something quite electrifying about each twist of thought, each grasp of over-due revelation" - Daily Telegraph"

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Meredith Oakes' first play, The Neighbour, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1992, and is published by Oberon Books. The Editing Process was first produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1994. Her translation include The New Menoza by Lenz, Horvath's Italian Night, and Bernhard's Elizabeth II. Opera Libretti include The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit and Solid Assets.