And I remember Agamemnon coming out of his tent and saying
And now there’s no wind

Uku Uusberg’s “Iphigeneia. Agamemnon. Elektra.”, the opening production of Tallinn City Theatre’s long-awaited Main Stage, takes us back to the roots of European theatre: Ancient Greece. Tiago Rodrigues’ trilogy is based on the Greek myth about the Mycenean royal family and how there was no wind for the ships headed for Troy. But that’s no reason to call off the war plans.

There are boundaries in our lives, and ignoring them changes something not only in ourselves, but also in our loved ones. Our veins, once vessels of love, are now bursting with the destructive force of revenge. If we could understand how that happened, we could hope to avoid it.

The author Tiago Rodrigues, one the most celebrated playwrights in Europe, has taken the stories of antiquity known to us thanks to Euripides, Aeschylus or Sophocles, and rewritten them with a contemporary intimacy and straightforwardness, sometimes even humour. All the while never losing sight of the inexorability of Greek tragedies. It all started in 1195 B.C. with Paris kidnapping the beautiful Helen and taking her away to Troy.

Memory has become a tool for actors in bringing scenes from a long-gone word back to life, so that we may better understand the whirlwind of a world that surrounds us today.