In 2014 translator Nicholas Rudall and director Charles Newell gave us their canny and powerful version of Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides's look at how, step by excruciating step, Mycenaean king Agamemnon finds himself compelled to sacrifice daughter Iphigenia to Artemis in exchange for clear sailing to Troy. Rudall and Newell came back the following year with Aeschylus's Agamemnon, in which the king returns victoriou…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PM on November 23, 2016