Orestie (Aischylos)

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Oresteia Aeschylus trilogy World premiere of the texts by Sivan Ben Yishai, Miroslava Svolikova and Maren Kames For generations, the Atrid family piles up guilt upon guilt, taking bloody revenge, which is used again as a reason for new acts of violence: Agamemnon sacrifices his own daughter Iphigenia for the favor of the gods on his campaign, his wife Clytemnestra takes revenge and murders the victorious one Returning, her son Orestes sees the balancing justice in matricide and is driven insane by the Furies. In the end, the principle of revenge should finally be abandoned in favor of civil justice - at the price of putting the man's voice above everything else in case of doubt. The award-winning authors Sivan Ben Yishai, Miroslava Svolikova and Maren Kames give the female characters Iphigenia, Cassandra and Elektra surprising voices, with which they expand the original narrative of the invention of democracy to include today's perspectives