The house and its festering wound cannot be healed from the outside, says the dead war hero who has returned home. Only from within, through bloody strife. Agamemnon is the name of this hero who returns home in Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” and is murdered by his wife Claitemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. On the stage of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus his name is Ivan and he wears green combat gear. “That’s how the world is – somewhere it’s quiet, and somewhere there’s a bang,” he says. And could just as easily mean Troy as Butscha.
“The Oreste. After the War” at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus – Culture
