Agamemnon - Cameri Theater

Agamemnon. A play by Shachar Pinkas and Irad Rubinstein, based on Aeschylus. Directed by: Irad Rubinstein. Set design: Eran Atzmon. Costumes: Oren Dar. Music: Roy Yarkoni. Lighting: Nadav Barnea. Assistant director: Shira Broida. Featuring: Dror Keren, Michal Oziel, Yishai Golan, Rut Asarsai, Yonatan Hornechik, Yarden Nikpahame, and Gal Mizrav. The plane takes off. Agamemnon sets out on a secret diplomatic mission that could decide the region's fate, under the growing threat of the Trojan War. As the leader carrying the responsibility for Greece's future on his shoulders, he discovers the cruel condition that could end the war: sacrificing his teenage son, Orestes. At thirty thousand feet, torn between his loyalty to his family and his duty to the state, Agamemnon faces an impossible decision. Menelaus, his brother and the army commander, demands he sacrifice his son for the homeland; Clytemnestra, the mother, fights with all her strength to save his life; and the opposition seeks to exploit the crisis for its own political ends. The fateful decision must be made before the plane lands. Following the success of "Oedipus" and "Medea," this is the third part of the impressive Greek trilogy directed by Irad Rubinstein — a contemporary, powerful adaptation of the classical tragedy that examines the personal cost of leadership and the eternal tension between the good of the family and the good of the state.