Iphigénie, Agamemnon, Électre

The Portuguese author, who turns the great classics into real gems, has taken the myth of Iphigénie and brought it to life in our own time. The father sacrifices his daughter for the war, the grief-stricken mother takes a lover and together they kill the father, the children avenge their father and kill their mother and her lover! The rest we all know...

At the heart of the emotions are snatches of a familiar story that we have yet to recognize: resentment and absurdity, memory and revenge, hope and the inescapable. A trilogy as a contemporary response to ancient theater that forces us to accept the idea of being born with what came before us.

It's an experiment in style that Dominique Serron's staging presents: a raw, musical staging that favors sound to stimulate the imagination! An almost bare stage, which acknowledges the ephemerality of theater and our need to return to the sources of founding stories. Figures who carry the stories to the hearts of sons, daughters, mothers, women, fathers and men. And a chorus that never tires of repeating its disagreement with a destiny forced by inhuman will. A great classic of yesterday to speak of today, carried by a top-flight cast.