Girl on an Altar

<p><i>A sinister night.</i><br><i>Evil and edge in the air.</i><br><i>What are they celebrating?</i><br><br>Clytemnestra’s world is torn apart when Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war. Ten years later, the couple are reunited. What follows is a dangerous battle fuelled by love, grief and power.<br><br>Marina Carr’s adaptation of the infamous Greek myth brings Clytemnestra’s story to the fore and asks if it is possible to forgive the unforgivable.<br><br><i>He turns to me in hall one evening, wine on him, sentimental. There is nothing I would not do to have your good opinion again, he says.</i><br><br><i>Girl on an Altar </i>opened at the Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2022. The production transferred to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in July 2023. <br><br>'Mesmerisingly compelling . . . Carr's words are a delight to hear, even at their most bleak. Bracingly good.' <i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>'Cool and deadly . . . Homeric in its vivid detail and oral splendour.' <i>Guardian</i></p>