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Article: `AGAMEMNON': WEAK STORY, STRONG SCORE.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 20, 1998
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When ``Agamemnon'' was presented as a work-in-progress at last year's Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, it had real promise as a work of significance. The music was haunting and the integration of movement skillful.
Those elements are even more fully realized in the now-complete hourlong ``opera,'' creator Garrett Fisher's term for this total theater piece. But, as a finished work, ``Agamemnon'' lacks sufficient narrative structure to fully captivate an audience.
A large part of the problem is that Fisher uses the least dramatic part of the mythic story of the Greek king Agamemnon, who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win the gods' ...