Iphigenia - De Roovers

Her father wants to sacrifice her for a favorable wind. Maar Iphigenia has other plans. A 2500-year-old story, radically rewritten. Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Her father intends to sacrifice her to the goddess Artemis to get a favorable wind so that the Greek fleet can sail to Troy. Then the Trojan War can finally begin, the mother of all wars. De Portugese writer and theater maker Tiago Rodrigues wrote a radical re-reading of this tragedy. In it, Iphigenia no longer passively undergoes her fate but decides on it herself. Iphigenia thus becomes a powerful, autonomous woman, in the line of Antigone, who gives meaning to her own life instead of submitting to divine arbitrariness or decisions of men who are so eager to wage war. Rodrigues introduces meta-theatrical elements in which the story is constantly questioned. He switches between different versions; history becomes memory and dialogue. What do we still know of the original story? Can this story also be told differently? Who is to blame or responsible? How can we resist? Nine actors tackle these questions and tell a story that shows that war is never just about politics but primarily about the human price paid for it. From and with Robby Cleiren, Sara De Bosschere, Amelie Luyckx, Luc Nuyens, Lilith Pas, Sofie Sente, Mil Sinaeve, Eliza Stuyck, and Michael Vergauwen