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The Iphigenia Quartet

Louise McMenemy stars

One tragedy. Two parts. Four explosive plays.

Agamemnon faces an impossible choice, he is a father commanded by the gods to sacrifice his daughter.  In doing so, he will lose his wife, Clytemnestra and bury his child, Iphigenia. Ever present over his shoulder, the Chorus awaits Iphigenia’s fate.

The Iphigenia Quartet gives you the opportunity to experience this domestic catastrophe from the perspective of each key player.  Witness Clytemnestra grapple with the ultimate betrayal, see Iphigenia boldly accept her fate, watch Agamemnon wrestle with an impossible choice, and experience the Chorus’ powerless observation of this tragedy, unable to look away.

Watch the classic Greek story of Iphigenia at Aulis retold by four of the UK’s most exciting and radical playwrights. The production will be performed as a pair of double bills alternating throughout the run – Agamemnon & Clytemnestra and Iphigenia & Chorus, giving you the chance to see every angle.

You may be willing to die for your beliefs, but who would you kill for them?

Written by Caroline Bird, Suhayla El-Bushra, Lulu Raczka and Chris Thorpe.

Audiences wanting to get the full experience of The Iphigenia Quartet can see both parts for £30 (£25 concessions) when booking both performances at the box office in one transaction. Please call our box office if you need any help: 0207 229 0706.   

Approx running time: 80 minutes per part. 

For information on the accessibility options we provide, please click here.

For a PDF version of The Iphigenia Quartet free cast and creatives sheet click here.

GATE DEBATE 

Join us for a Gate Debate on Monday 16th May, after that evening's performance of Iphigenia and Chorus. 

GATE EDUCATE WORKSHOPS

We have a quartet of workshops for you running alongside The Iphigenia Quartet. Check them out!

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Monday - Saturday 7:30pm
Saturday Matinees 3pm

Saturday 23 April 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra

Monday 25 April 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Tuesday 26 April 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Wednesday 27 April 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Thursday 28 April 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Friday 29 April 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Saturday 30 April 3:00pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Saturday 30 April 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus

Monday 02 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Tuesday 03 May 7pm (Press Night) - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra and Iphigenia & Chorus
Wednesday 04 May 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Thursday 05 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Friday 06 May 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Saturday 07 May 3pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Saturday 07 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra

Monday 09 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Tuesday 10 May 7:30pm (Young People's Night) - Iphigenia & Chorus
Wednesday 11 May 3pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Wednesday 11 May 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Thursday 12 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Friday 13 May 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Saturday 14 May 3pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Saturday 14 May 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus

Monday 16 May 7:30pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Tuesday 17 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Wednesday 18 May 3pm (Captioned Performance) - Iphigenia & Chorus
Wednesday 18 May 7:30pm (Captioned Performance) - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Thursday 19 May 7:30pm  - Iphigenia & Chorus
Friday 20 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
Saturday 21 May 3pm - Iphigenia & Chorus
Saturday 21 May 7:30pm - Agamemnon & Clytemnestra

£20 full price.
£15 concessions (senior, student, unwaged, access, union members). There are a limited amount of concessions per performance.
£10 preview and matinee performances.

We are offering a discount to all customers wanting to see all four plays. Book to see Agamemnon & Clytemnestra and Iphigenia & Chorus in the same transaction at the box office online, over the phone or in person for £30 tickets (£25 concession) to see all of The Iphigenia Quartet.

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Cast & CREATIVES

Andrew French
Andrew French
Theatre credits include Bully Boy (Mercury Theatre Colchester), Boi Boi is Dead (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Roundabout Season (Paines Plough), Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Julius Caesar (RSC), Measure for Measure (Almeida Theatre), Monster (Royal Exchange Manchester), I Like Mine With a Kiss (Bush Theatre), As You Like It (West End), Reference to Salvador Dali (Arcola Theatre/Young Vic), The Taming of the Shrew (Nottingham Playhouse), The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida (National Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe), Things Fall Apart (West Yorkshire/Royal Court) and The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre). His television credits include Capital, Perfect Parents, Primeval, Soundproof, Blast!, Trust, In Deep, A Touch of Frost, Burnside, Tough Love. His film credits include Artificial Horizon, Breaking the Bank, Song for Marion, Exorcist: The Beginning, Exorcist: Dominion, The Merchant of Venice, Doctor Sleep and Tailor of Panama. 
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Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman), Hope, Babies (Royal Court), Yerma (Gate Theatre), The Swan, There is a War (National Theatre), Tiger Country, Keepers (Hampstead Theatre), Detaining Justice, Seize the Day, Category B, Let There Be Love, Fabulation, Playboy of the West Indies (Tricycle Theatre), The Horse Marines (Theatre Royal Plymouth) and The Bacchae (National Theatre Scotland/Lincoln Centre, New York). Her television credits include Unforgotten, Cucumber, Top Boy, The Mimic, The Bible, Going Forward, Cuffs, Shoot the Messenger, Waking the Dead, Baby Father, Bad Girls. Her film credits include A Blues for Nia and The Child.
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Anthony Barclay
Anthony Barclay
Theatre credits include Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange Manchester), Road (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Manchester), Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (York Theatre Royal), Credible Witness (Royal Court), Vurt (Manchester Contact Theatre), La Strada (National Theatre Studio), The Taming Of The Shrew (English Touring Theatre), The Iron Man (Young Vic), Assassins (Donmar Warehouse) and  Julius Caesar, The Fantastics (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). His television credits include Vera, New Tricks, Judge John Deed, Mersey Beat, Lock, Stock, Smack the Pony, Birds Of A Feather, Sorry About Last Night, Common As Muck, Love Hurts and Screaming. His film credits include The Life of Jimmy Horton, No Humans Involved, Job's Dinner, A Price Worth Paying, Devil In Your Details, Road, Prix De Rome, Citizen vs Kane and Red Black.
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Dwane Walcott
Dwane Walcott
Theatre credits include Hamlet (Barbican); The Twits (Royal Court); Venice Preserv’d (Spectators Guild); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Titus Andronicus, A Mad World My Masters, Candide (RSC); Damned by Despair (National Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Castle). His television credits include Tut; and for film, Mindhorn.
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Louise McMenemy
Louise McMenemy
Louise is a Scottish Actor and trained at the Italia Conti Academy on the 3 Year BA (Hons) Acting programme.

Recent credits include The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre), See Bob Run (Bread and Roses Theatre), All Things Nice (White Bear Theatre), Boris Godunov and The Ghost Train (The Jack Studio Theatre).
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Chris Thorpe
Chris Thorpe
Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art/theatre company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora - his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened at Lisbon's Almada festival in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson's political noise project #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival.
 
Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarkt in Berlin, 2014.  It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and is about to open in Saarbrucken and Vienna.
 
He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin from New York's TEAM. Their first piece Confirmation, is currently touring internationally and they are starting to develop their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely.
 
Currently Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited's Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a new version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and a new piece, Victory Condition for the Royal Court. He is also working on Truck for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard, who directed There Has Possibly Been An Incident.
 
The texts for There Has Possibly Been An Incident and Confirmation, as well as work with Hannah Jane Walker, are published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese.

Chris has written Chorus for The Iphigenia Quartet. 
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Rebecca Hill – Director – Iphigenia
Rebecca is a director and writer. She is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed Unbound Productions, was previously Director in Residence at the Almeida Theatre, and was an Ovalhouse Artist of 2014 as recipient of the Arts Manifesto: A Future for the Arts award. Her verbatim play Travesti won a Fringe First Award from The Scotsman and an Editor's Choice Award from ThreeWeeks Magazine at Edinburgh Festival 2014. As director, theatre includes: Our Kingdom (Vaults Festival, rehearsed reading); Lysistrata: The Sex Strike (Almeida Theatre, rehearsed reading); Travesti (Pleasance Theatre); The Night (RADA Studios, rehearsed reading); Waifu (Southwark Playhouse); Timebomb: 48 Hour Plays (White Bear Theatre); Two Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); One Time Thing (Park Theatre); Half-Way (Ovalhouse). As Associate Director: East is East (Jamie Lloyd Productions/ATG, UK Tour); Little Revolution; Our Town; The Fever (all for the Almeida). As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Cymbeline (Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe); Eclipsed (Gate Theatre); Tender Napalm (UK Tour/ Southwark Playhouse); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); King Lear; Dido, Queen of Carthage (in rep, Greenwich Theatre); Oedipus (Blue Elephant Theatre).
Rebecca will be directing Iphigenia for The Iphigenia Quartet.
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Lulu Raczka – Playwright – Clytemnestra
Lulu Raczka is an award-winning young playwright. She is a Company Director of Barrel Organ Theatre, who she worked with on her play NOTHING, which has toured the UK. Barrel Organ’s next piece Some People Talk About Violence was performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2015, and went on to be performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Warwick Arts Centre and Camden People's Theatre through-out winter. Lulu has also had her work performed at the Sheffield Crucible, and the Soho Theatre. She is currently working on a piece for the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival.

Lulu has written Clytemnestra for The Iphigenia Quartet. 
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Caroline Bird – Playwright – Agamemnon
Caroline’s new stage version of The Wizard of Oz will be Northern Stage’s Christmas production.  She is currently under commission to the Old Vic, writing the book and lyrics for a musical version of Dennis the Menace. 
 
Previous work includes: Sixty-Six Books, The Bush Theatre, 2011; The Trojan Women, Gate Theatre, 2012; Chamber Piece, Show 3 of the Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre season, 2013 & UK tour 2013/2014.
 
Caroline was one of ten finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2014. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards in 2013 and for the Shell Woman of the Future Awards in 2011.
 
Caroline is an award-winning poet with four poetry collections published by Carcanet Press. She was named one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012.

Caroline has written Agamemnon for The Iphigenia Quartet. 
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Suhayla El-Bushra – Playwright – Iphigenia

Suhayla is a Brighton based screenwriter and playwright. Previous plays include Pigeons at The Royal Court, Cuckoo at The Unicorn, The Kilburn Passion at The Tricycle and Fingertips for Clean Break at Latitude. Her adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide will be staged at the National Theatre in spring 2016. She is currently writer in residence at the NT Studio and is under commission from Out Of Joint. Suhayla was a core writer on TV soap Hollyoaks and has various film and TV projects in development.


Suhalya has written Iphigenia for The Iphigenia Quartet. 
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Bex Kemp – Design Assistant
Bex is a freelance set and costume designer and costume supervisor. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Designs include; Andy Capp The Musical (Finborough), Circling the Square (Salisbury Arts Centre), Othello (Greenwich Theatre + UK Tour), Becoming Mohammed (The Space), About Miss Julie (King's Head), As You Like It (UK Tour), Our Space (Lost Theatre), Pentecost, Variations on The Death of Trotsky, Scenes From The Big Picture, Common Chorus, Seventh Continent (Central School of Speech and Drama, Derby LIVE), Kleinkunst 3 (Roundhouse), Cinderella (Primrose Gardens).

Costume Designer: F*ck The Polar Bears (Bush Theatre).

Design Assistant to Miriam Buether; The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse), The Trial, The Government Inspector (Young Vic), Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House), Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre), Decade (Headlong), Carmen (Salzburg Festival).

Other Design Assistance; The Bodyguard (Tim Hatley/Adelphi Theatre), The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Rachel Good/ Shunt), Sleeping Beauty (Keith Orton/Salisbury Playhouse), The Duchess of Malfi (Punchdrunk/ENO). 

Costume Supervision; All or Nothing the Mod Musical (The Vaults), The Water Palace (Tete a Tete), Citizen Puppet, Push (New Diorama), Natural Selection, The Low Road, The Man of Mode, The Commune, The Good Person of Setzuan (Central School of Speech and Drama).

More info at: www.bexkemp.com
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Nigel Barrett – Menelaus & Voice
Theatre credits include Every One (Battersea Arts Centre/Chris Goode & Co.), The Body and The Mirror for Princes (Barbican), Mad Man (Theatre Royal Plymouth), There Has Possibly Been an Incident (Royal Exchange Manchester/Soho Theatre), A Conversation (The Yard), Get Stuff Break Free (Made in China/National Theatre), Babel and The Passion (WildWorks), Pericles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Shelf Life (National Theatre of Wales), Richard III - An Arab Tragedy (Royal Shakespeare Company/Bouffes du Nord), Contains Violence (Lyric Hammersmith), The Unconquered (Traverse Theatre), Hide (Royal Festival Hall), Amato Saltone and Tropicana (National Theatre/SHUNT), The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic), Single Spies (Theatre Royal Bath). His television credits Crimewatch and Dawson’s Creek; his film credits include Cycles and The Gospel of Us. 
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Richard Bell – Associate Sound Designer
Theatre as Associate Sound Designer:
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (Arcola/HighTide), A High Street Odyssey (Inspector Sands), Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse Outreach Project)

Theatre as Sound Designer:
Wet Bread (Sheer Drop)

Other media as Sound Designer:
Zombies, Run! Season 1&2 (Six to Start, Android/iPhone app)

Richard is also a freelance production sound engineer.
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Yarit Dor – Movement and Fight Director
Yarit Dor is a movement and fight director. She is a former dancer and dramaturg of Hagit Yakira Dance Company and is an Associate Artist of The Director’s Cut Theatre Company and an Associate Teacher at RADA.

She has choreographed movement and violence on a variety of shows from musicals and new writing to classics and devised theatre. 

Her credits include: The Iphigenia Quartet, Diary of a Madman (The Gate Theatre), Dark Tourism (Park Theatre), Disgraced (English Theatre Frankfurt), Zastrozzi (Norwich Dragon Hall), The Emperor Jones (The Lost Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Greenwich Theatre), Macbeth: Fire Burn (Colchester Shakespeare Festival), Henry V (Peckham Asylum), Kiss of the Earch (Corn Exchange Newbury), The Sorrows of Satan (Tristan Bates), Noonday Demons (King's Head Theatre), Macbeth (RIFT Theatre), A Skull in Connemara (White Bear Theatre), Somewhere Between a Self and an Other (Dance 4 Nottingham), Leah (The Place).

www.yarit-dor.com 
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Heather Doole – Production Manager
Heather is a freelance production manager.

Pasts show include: Diary of a Madman (Gate Theatre); Carmen (Blackheath Halls); No Villain (Trafalgar Studios and Old Red Lion); Radiant Vermin (59E59, New York, Soho Theatre, London, and Tobacco Factory, Bristol); Iphigenia Quartet (The Gate Theatre); All or Nothing (The Vaults); Firebird (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs & Trafalgar Studios); Giving, The Argument, The Meeting, 36 Phone Calls, Sunspots, Deluge, Deposit, Elephants and State Red (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); 4000 Days and Grounded (Park Theatre);  Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Trafalgar Studios); The Session (Soho Theatre); Octagon (Arcola Theatre); And Then Came the Nightjars (Bristol Old Vic Studio and Theatre 503); Valhalla,  Animals & Cinderella and the Beanstalk  (Theatre 503); Women Centre Stage Festival (NT Temporary space). She assisted on Bull (Young Vic).
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Ed Madden – Assistant Director
Ed is a director, Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, and co-founder of new writing company Walrus. He studied at the University of Warwick.

His production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Walrus’ first show, premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in January 2015. It has subsequently visited Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and Camden People’s Theatre, and will begin a UK tour later this year.

Ed has also worked with Tobacco Factory Theatres, and writes study guides for Digital Theatre Plus. 

Ed will be assisting on Agamemnon and Chorus for The Iphigenia Quartet. 
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Jade Lewis – Assistant Director
Jade is a theatre director who has worked at Southwark Playhouse, The Young Vic and The Bush Theatre as a director as well as an assistant director. She has assisted on a project run by Old Vic New Voices, is currently an Emerging Artist at Ovalhouse and also Creative Associate at The Gate Theatre where she assisted Jennifer Tang, Rebecca Hill on The Iphigenia Quartet.
 
In 2012 she was Boris Karloff Assistant Director on the Young Vic production Blackta directed by David Lan and since then has worked with directors and collaborators such as Rikki Henry, Patrice Etienne, Matthew Xia and Suba Das. In 2015/16 Jade directed On The Edge of Me, written by Yolanda Mercy and was on at The Rich Mix, Soho Theatre, Pains Plough Roundabout in Edinburgh and several other regional venues and festivals. 
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Sarah Readman – Production Electrician
As Lighting Designer: Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse),The Owls Are Not What They Seem (Theatre Delicatessen), Phenomena (Albany Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre), The Liberation of Colette Simple (Jackson’s Lane), The Earning of Innocence (Yard Theatre), Ghostland Cinema and Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time with Mingbeast (Camden People’s Theatre and BE Festival), STARRING JAMES FRANCO and Right Honourable Gentlemen with The Same But Different (Camden People’s Theatre, Theatre Delicatessen, Brakke Gronde in Amsterdam and National Theatre Kosovo), Tomorrow with JV2, part of the Jasmin Vardimon Company (UK tour), Pages From The Book Of... (Theatre Astorka in Slovakia, Moscow Art Theatre and Gardzienice in Poland).

As Co-Designer with Joshua Pharo: JOAN (Derby Theatre and UK tour), Shelter Me (Theatre Delicatessen) and Werter (Arcola).

As Associate Lighting Designer: The Red Chair (UK tour), An Anatomie in Four Quarters (Cardiff Welsh Millennium Centre) and Red Ladies (UK tour) with Hansjorg Schmidt and Clod Ensemble. Stilled (Wellcome Collection) with Fevered Sleep. I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole (Gate Theatre), Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse), Pioneer (UK tour) with Joshua Pharo.
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Cécile Trémolières – Designer
Cécile is a set and costume designer based in London. She trained in Wimbledon College of Arts, graduating with a first class degree in 2013. She is a Linbury Prize finalist in 2013 and a Jerwood Young Designer 2016 for her work at the Gate on The Iphigenia Quartet.

Cécile’s work was exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, and at the V&A exhibition Make/Believe: UK Design for Performance 2011-2015, and at the World Stage Design exhibition in Taipei, in July 2017.

As Designer, her credits includes: This Beautiful Future (Yard Theatre), The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre), Punkplay (Southwark Playhouse), My People (Clwyd Theatr), Invisible Treasure (Oval House), The Mikvah Project (Yard Theatre).
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