Company of Angels Double Bill: Iphigenia & This Child

Tuesday 2 to Friday 5 February 2010 [7.30pm]

matinee: Wednesday 3 February 2010 [2.30pm]

Performances at Tara Arts:

15, 16, 17 April 2010 [7.30pm]

Featuring: the ALRA 3-Year Acting Course Graduates 2010

Written by: Pauline Mol [Iphigenia] & Joel Pommerat [This Child]

Translated by: Rina Vergano [Iphigenia] & Nigel Gearing [This Child]

Directed by: Brenda Murphy [Iphigenia] & Dan Sherer [This Child]

About:

After the success of 'Children in Wartime', Company of Angels and ALRA worked together again on this striking double-bill of the freshest new writing from Europe.

Tara Arts was struck by the quality of the work, and asked us to take a three night run at their studio theatre.

Iphigenia

It is prophesied that the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra is to be sacrificed to pacify the gods and bring fortune to the Greek army.

Iphigenia - strong-born - is brought to her father to complete the sacrifice. In this beautifully straightforward and lyrical reworking of Euripides tale, we see even the most powerful of families will unravel under the pressure of Fate.

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1. Abbie Salt
2. Francis Woolf
3. Syerra Bissessar [Abbie Salt - Background]

Cast:

Madeline Anholt Clytemnestra

Syerra Bissessar Iphigenia

Charlie Condon Slave

Jannik Kuczynski Agamemnon

Abbie Salt Child

Francis Woolf Menelaus/Achilles

This Child

This Child is played out through a series of vignettes - glimpsing into the dense thicket of family life. From all kinds of angles, we get the chance to peer through the tangled branches and roots of the family tree, following fathers, daughters, sons and mothers as they push for understanding between each other in this tense and powerful piece.

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