The Oresteia, Antigone, Electra, Medea, Agamemnon which should have been called Clytemnestra—those amazing women, re-acting in bitter power to whatever strange fates their men inflicted on them, striking back, as when Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon and Cassandra, then told the audience how she had done it, at the end staring out into the audience, right at Maya: “Enough of misery! Start no more. Our hands are red. Go home and yield to fate in time, In time before you suffer. We have acted as we had to act.” We have acted as we had to act. So true, so true.
