Iphigenia in Aulis

Presented by Performance Anxiety for Voila! Festival at The Cockpit Theatre

Directed and adapted by Dean Elliott and Lee Anderson

Agamemnon - Dean Elliott, Arcus/Messenger - Nat Kennedy, Menelaus – Christopher Adams, Clytemnestra - Emma Wilkinson Wright,

Iphigenia – Hannah Wilder, Achilles - Joey Ellis, Chorus - Viviana Cabral, William Donaldson and Gintarė Šmigelskytė

Sound design by Lee Anderson

Lighting Design by Lucy Adams

Photography by Jamie Bell

A nation clamours for war. The Gods demand a sacrifice. One family walk the path to annihilation...
With his ill-tempered military forces assembled at Aulis, Agamemnon waits anxiously for a sign from the Gods: a prophecy that will sanction his violent crusade against Troy and win glory for the Greek army.

Meanwhile, the young Iphigenia stands on the verge of marriage to a famous warrior, and Clytemnestra uncovers a terrible and agonising secret...
Performance Anxiety reimagine Euripides' final tragedy as a politically charged and boldly theatrical confrontation with the perils of leadership, national mythology and the slipperiness of truth.