Girl on an Altar

by Marina Carr

A sinister night.
Evil and edge in the air.
What are they celebrating?

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.

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.

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.

Girl on an Altar opened at the Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2022.

Genres: Plays, Mythology, Greek Mythology, Fiction

80 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2022

About the author

Marina Carr was brought up in County Offaly. A graduate of University College Dublin, she has written extensively for the theatre. She has taught at Villanova, Princeton, and currently teaches in the School of English, Dublin City University. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Macaulay Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Wyndham Campbell Prize. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.

Reviews

[gremlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

goes extremely hard i must admit

[Maggie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hey Google, how do I go back in time to May 2022 so that I have the possibility to see David Walmsley "stripped to the waist"

[laura moon · Rating 3 out of 5]

el final es lo que lo ha salvado para mi, bastante denso

[Karol Nayeli · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75