Cyprus Theatre Organisation - Yannis Margaritis
Iphigenia in Tauris
by Euripides
To engage with the work of Euripides is to undertake an exercise in dialectic thought. The ancient Greek enlightenment, with its disputation of facts, constitutes the chief tool required for the closest possible exploration of the Euripidean landscape.
The play Iphigenia in Tauris provides a different conclusion to the myth of the House of Atreus. The playwright seems to have been dissatisfied with the Aeschylan compromise reached in the Eumenides, and saw fit to return to an older myth relating to Iphigenia – that of the Taurean Artemis, with its clearly matriarchal roots. He therefore sets out the need for the co-existence of opposites, the need for balance between old and new, between “barbarian” and “cultured”, in a different way.
The cycle of bloodshed will end in the utopia of complete acceptance, or with the complete acceptance of utopia.
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