Iphigenie

from Angelika Messner

17. + 18.01., 16. - 18.02.2023, 20:00
TAG, Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße, Gumpendorfer Straße 67, 1060 Wien

Duration: 70 minutes, no intermission
First performance, premiere: Wed. Nov. 30, 2022, 20.00

Angelika Messner's new version revisits the morally demanding role of Iphigenia, which brings women into inner distress. She moves the classical plot into the red light milieu. Iphigenia was sold by her father as a girl and ended up in a brothel. There, after twenty years, she worked her way up to become a "Mother Theresa of hookers." Her pimp Thoas, head of a mafia organization, proposes marriage to her, which she refuses. This hurts his masculine pride. As punishment, he gives her the order to kill two strangers from her homeland who have picked up his men ...
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