The first part of this trilogy by the Greek tragedy poet Aeschylus focuses on the story of King Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra. The monarch decides to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia in exchange for favourable winds to take his ships to Troy. After Agamemnon finally wins the Trojan War, he returns home, where a confrontation with Clytemnestra awaits him. 

In the summer of 2022 in Greece, STAN presented this story in the open air in Elefsina (also known as Eleusis), the birthplace of Aeschylus. In 2024, they and Olympique Dramatique are adapting Klytaimnḗstra for theatres. In their show, three different versions of the famous Greek tragedy come together: Aeschylus’s original play in Greek, Ted Hughes’s masterly English translation, and Gustav Ernst’s raw interpretation, Bloedbad (Blood Bath), in Dutch. The juxtaposition of these three interpretations of this mythical story brings to the surface the unbridled craving for war and toxic masculinity within it, and we see the character of Agamemnon in a new light.  

The cast consists of a group of Belgian and Greek actors and a Filipino and Norwegian performer – a polyphonic ensemble, embodying different perspectives and revealing the dynamics between dancers and actors. A dissection of misogyny, 2500 years ago and today. Of the hunger for power and violence, of the apathy with which we submit to brutality. A questioning of contemporary identities and truths. With as guiding line: Where does intuition take over from reason?