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Iphigenia

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Iphigenia, favourite and most beloved child of her mother and father, longs to escape her childhood and is bored in her home - the palace of Mycenae. Suddenly her father, Agamemnon summons her and her mother to Aulis - where the Greek army is encamped and seemingly stranded and unable to set off for Troy, to rescue Iphigenia's aunt Helen of Sparta - making Iphigenia overjoyed that she has come to marry the famed warrior Achilles and embark on the first step of her adult life.

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However, events conspire and instead of the happy future Iphigenia envisions, Iphigenia's future is not the one she hopes for but instead will start the destruction of the House of Atreus.  

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The fourth play in The Fall Of The House Of Atreus sextet, where love and duty is tested, and futures and people are destroyed. 

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