THE IPHIGENIA QUARTET
THE IPHIGENIA QUARTET GATE THEATRE NOTTING HILL 11 Pembridge Road Notting Hill Gate London W11 3HQ Box office: 020 7229 0706* Four plays over two nights presenting a multi-dimensional tragedy, seen from a variety of angles exploring fundamental issues of violence, sacrifice, and civic duty, vanity, motherhood and the predicament of women in the face of male violence. All this concerning events that occurred more than 2000 years ago. Nobody could ever accuse the Gate of lacking ambition. That it all works so powerfully is a credit to the cast who manage to fully convey the immediacy and terrible implications of the crisis faced by the primary protagonists, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Iphigenia. Andrew French “I am a good man in a dreadful situation….” The drunken Agamemnon declares in the first of the four plays, Agamemnon . “Is that ‘the line’ you’ll use?” Clytemnestra, his wife shoots back as she dissects his self-image with home truths about...