The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial min ...

Iphigenia at Aulis These are jittery times for the Greeks in Katie Mitchell's tremendous production of "Iphigenia at Aulis," which cracks open classical tragedy in much the same way that her wondrous ...

Most theaters would consider it a win to have just one moment in a show that's so viscerally arresting, it causes many to put hands over hearts and gasp. "Iphigenia at Aulis," the Euripidean tragedy ...

She’s brash, reckless, and unapologetically self-possessed. Stumbling through life in the nowhere town of Splott, Effie – short for Iphigenia – numbs her days with hookups and hangovers. Life on the ...

Sophie Melville is superb in this reworked version of the myth that follows a disaffected young woman kicking hard against a bleak world If you take a slight detour on the walk from Cardiff train ...

Ancient Greek stories are filled with dramatic twists, yet few tales hit the heart as deeply as the story of Iphigenia. She was a young princess caught in a moment where family duty, war, pride, and ...

“Nothing is what I’m try to keep and go forward with. Nothing. Thank you.” Those were Wayne Shorter's parting words to the audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Friday night after the ...

At one crucial juncture of “Iphigenia 2.0,” the 2007 Charles Mee mashup of the Greek tragedy by Euripides, Agamemnon finds himself in an awkward conversation with his wife, Clytemnestra, a tough ...

The opera's libretto is based on a play by Racine, which in turn comes from the ancient Greek story of Iphigenia, the young woman whose father, King Agamemnon, was ordered to sacrifice her to earn ...

“Nothing is what I’m try to keep and go forward with. Nothing. Thank you.” Those were Wayne Shorter’s parting words to the audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Friday night after the ...

Euripides has a God problem, too. His plays are about the gravest failings of humans but the humans are constantly being manipulated by immortals. The story of Iphigenia in Aulis, his final work, from ...