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From Signature Theatre:
Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company kicks off its 2007-08 season of works by Charles L. Mee Aug. 7 with Iphigenia 2.0, directed by Tina Landau and featuring Kate Mulgrew as Clytemnestra.
The sonorous star of Off-Broadway's Tea at Five and Our Leading Lady and TV's "Star Trek: Voyager" plays the anguished mother of the title character, who is also the wife of Agamemnon. The staging at Signature's home at the Peter Norton Space on West 42nd Street plays to Sept. 30.
Told by a cast of 12, "Iphigenia 2.0 is about a great imperial power that decides to go to war, taking an action so wrong that it sets the empire on the road to complete self-destruction," according to Signature. "Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, must prove to his uncertain troops that the dangerous battle they are about to undertake is righteous and worthy by making the ultimate sacrifice himself. A radical reinvention of the classic play [Iphigenia at Aulis] by Euripides that examines the costs of war and loss of innocence."
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