CLYTEMNESTRA — HANNAH LAX

CLYTEMNESTRA (2018)

Created and Directed by Hannah Lax, Jes Podewell and Ellen Bull
Adapted from the short story Clytemnestra by Gania Barlow
Inspired by The Oresteia by Aeschylus

Scenic Design: Hannah Lax and Ellen Bull
Costume Design: Hannah Lax and Ellen Bull
Puppetry Design: Hannah Lax and Ellen Bull
Lighting Design: Marc Petros
Sound Design: Brendan Connelly
Technical Direction: Michael Hidalgo
Produced by Tulane University, Department of Theatre and Dance
Lupin Theater, April 24th-29th 2018

Howl in the darkness woman! For your young is gone and nobody’s watching. Nobody’s waiting.
Howl into the house woman as the walls close in and you discover the taste of the off-white paint that you smeared the kitchen cupboards with to neatly declare your place as WIFE.
Howl at the old men who tut and coo and can’t and don’t and will not understand that an ox sits upon your tongue. In your womb. Heavy and panting. Bigger than the ship that sails back to you bearing your husband like prey.

Howl! As you draw yourself up. Become the mortar and bricks. Rattle the windows. Beat the doors. They are your wings, rising into the darkness. Howl. Take a knife from the kitchen and his boots from the stairs and wait. The whole house is with you woman!

Crouched, waiting, breathing.

One day.

Agamemnon will come home.

Photos by Gali Du.