THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE to Make New York Premiere at American Theatre of Actors
Mackenzie Robin Krestul's postmodern work, directed by Harrison Campbell, plays the Beckmann Theatre.
"THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE," a postmodern play by Mackenzie Robin Krestul, will have its New York debut on May 12th, supported by the Graduate Student Engagement Fund of Pratt Institute. Performances will be at the Beckmann Theatre, American Theatre of Actors, on Tuesday May 12th through Sunday May 17th at 7:30pm, with an additional matinee on Sunday at 3:00pm. Ticket prices are tiered.
This dissection of the classic Iphigenia at Aulis takes place in a technofeudal, post-apocalyptic ice age. There, amidst the unfamiliar rubble of her life, a nameless girl searches for her identity and freedom from her father's war machine. After the traditions of Magda Romanska and Heiner Müller, The Iphigeniamachine dismantles the original mythology to expose a perilous underbelly of atrocity, complacency, and glorified masculinity. Director Harrison Campbell speaks to the nature of this work:
"When considering how to approach the mythos of the ancient Greek playwrights like Euripides or Aeschylus, it's impossible not to butt up against the innovative but restrained rhetoric about the stories of Greek women. Iphigenia is just one example of many, a story where the tragic events of Iphigenia's demise are treated as an unwavering duty to the state or, worse, a contrived form of gratitude from the voice of a daughter soon to be destroyed. To produce the work as set down by Greek tradition is to ignore the piece in conversation with our current reality: that our American mythos is hardly a far cry from that of Aulis."
The cast features Quinn Andrews, Travis Bergmann, Sam Hardy, Mackenzie Robin Krestul, Cadence Lamb, Emily McManus, and Kaitlyn Rose RaBocse. On the design team is director Harrison Campbell, stage manager Kim Bramwell, sound designer and composer J. D. Goodman, lighting designer Tori Bogacki, puppet designer Annie McGowan, Costume Designer Kat Quiñones, fight director Alex Kopnick, intimacy coordinator Alice Camarota, and dramaturg Charlotte Edsall.
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