abstractSynopsis:
This play, an adaptation of a Greek tragedy, The Oresteia, is to satirize the democratization process in Taiwan. The love triangle among Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, and Aegisthus represents the entangled relations among politicians and the chorus the opportunist multitude. This play, juxtaposing the serial political murders in ancient Greek and present day Taiwan, mocks the transformation into democracy in Taiwan thought the intertexuality of the past and the present.