"Iphigenia for Nothing" premieres with a punch
Filip Petkovski's play “Iphigenia for Nothing,” a contemporary adaptation of a tragedy by Euripides, will premiere at the Drama Theater.
Based on the myth of the killing of a sacred deer in Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis," where King Agamemnon accidentally kills a beloved deer in the sacred grove of Artemis, Petkovski's play uses elements of physical and dance theater, runs for 100 minutes and is not recommended for anyone under 16 years of age, CE Report quotes MIA.
"This is a theater play liberated from a narrative. Theater where language does not dominate. Theater that perhaps does not want to be 'understood,' but to be witnessed, felt and experienced," the director said.
According to him, the death of Iphigenia is not heroic but is "the product of family manipulation and instrumentalized patriotic rhetoric."
"Her suffering becomes a symbol of the ways in which systems of power use human lives for personal and collective gain," Petkovski said, adding that Iphigenia died "for nothing – becoming part of a larger social mechanism that swallows individual will and replaces it with ideological discipline."
The choreography is also by Petkovski, the set design is by Martin Manev, and the costumes are by Antonija Guginska Jordanoska and Gordana Bozhinovska.
The cast includes Dimitrija Doksevski, Filip Trajkovikj, Jelena Zhugikj, Nina Elzeser, Stefan Vujisikj, Sara Klimoska, Marjan Naumov, and Tomislav Davidovski.
The next performances have been scheduled for April 11 and 15.
