IPHIGENIA by Goethe
| Place: | Ustinov Theatre which is part of the Theatre Royal, Bath, England |
| Start date: | Wednesday 21, September 2011 |
| End date: | Tuesday 20, December 2011 |
| Times: | See main text |
| Price: | £19.50/£14.50 discounts |
IPHIGENIA by Goethe in a new translation by Meredith Oakes
The production is a unique opportunity to see a famous Greek play that has not been performed in public in this country. The production along with two other plays are being performed between September and December. The play will be performed in the Ustinov Theatre which is part of the Theatre Royal, Bath.
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 child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away.
Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on is return from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother.
Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Athens, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives to rescue her...
Goethe is the supreme genius of modern German literature. The Iphigenia story has occupied great creative minds through the ages from Euripides to Racine. This is the first time Goethe's Iphigenia will have been seen by a British audience.
Director Laurence Boswell
Designer Ti Green
Lighting Desiger Ben Ormerod
Sound Designer Fergus O'Hare
The members of the Ustinov Studio Company are:
Peter Bramhill, David Fielder, Christopher Hunter, Adam Jackson-Smith, Frances McNamee, Tom Mothersdale, Laura Rees, Samantha Robinson,Milo Twomey.
Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath BA1 1ET
Box Office: 01225 448844
http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk
Performances
Wednesday, 21/9/11 7:45PM
Thursday, 22/9/11 7:45PM
Friday, 23/9/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 24/9/11 2:30PM
Saturday, 24/9/11 7:45PM
Wednesday, 28/9/11 2:30PM
Wednesday, 28/9/11 7:45PM
Friday, 30/9/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 1/10/11 7:45PM
Tuesday, 4/10/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 8/10/11 2:30PM
Tuesday, 11/10/11 7:00PM
Thursday, 13/10/11 7:45PM
Friday, 14/10/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 15/10/11 7:45PM
Tuesday, 18/10/11 7:45PM
Wednesday, 19/10/11 7:45PM
Thursday, 27/10/11 7:45PM
Friday, 28/10/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 29/10/11 7:45PM
Tuesday, 1/11/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 5/11/11 2:30PM
Wednesday, 16/11/11 7:45PM
Thursday, 17/11/11 2:30PM
Saturday, 19/11/11 2:30PM
Thursday, 24/11/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 26/11/11 7:45PM
Tuesday, 29/11/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 3/12/11 2:30PM
Monday, 5/12/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 10/12/11 7:45PM
Thursday, 15/12/11 7:45PM
Saturday, 17/12/11 2:30PM
Tuesday, 20/12/11 2:30PM
Tuesday, 20/12/11 7:45PM
