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EXPLAINED: Iphigenia - The Real Truth

Cate Blanchett’s Electra/Persona at the National Theatre is a surreal triumph

Written and directed by Benedict Andrews, Electra/Persona is two plays conjoined. The first is a version of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy Electra, and the second is a stage adaptation of the 1966 Ingmar Bergman film Persona.

The Conversation

Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill

Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves

The Guardian - UK

The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic

Mary-Louise Parker gives a powerhouse performance in a three-part drama that cuts up Aeschylus’s chronology and adds shades of other plays

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Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

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 mining town – and refused to make it in English

The Guardian - UK

Iphigenia review: A clumsy and unnecessary attempt to make Euripides relevant

2/5 This play at the Arcola Theatre by Turkish director Serdar Biliş has a contemporary and experimental approach to Greek tragedy that doesn’t quite pull together

Evening Standard

Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film

Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman play

The Guardian - UK

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker audiobook review – beware the grief of Clytemnestra

The story of Agamemnon’s fateful return to Mycenae is vividly captured in a retelling of The Iliad that gives Homer’s women a voice

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Electra-fying! Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson brings back an ancient avenger

Sophocles’ classic about the bitter pursuit of justice – now revived by Daniel Fish – reveals fresh truths each time

The Guardian - UK

‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

The Conversation

Cassidy Hutchinson and Greek tragedy show that courage is rare and cowardice more common

Ever since former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s remarkable testimony in the recent January 6 committee hearing, I’ve been thinking – as I’m sure many people have – about courage. Seeking analogies in literature, I think of two women from Greek mythology: Antigone and Iphigenia.

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