Iphigenia in Tauris

"Iphigenia in Tauris" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a captivating play that tells the story of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, who finds herself as a priestess of Artemis in Tauris, far from her beloved homeland of Greece. The play explores big ideas like sacrifice, who we are, and the fight between what we want and what the gods want for us, showing us what it means to be human and how powerful fate can be. As the story starts, Iphigenia is deep in thought, stuck in a sacred grove, missing her family and struggling with her job as a priestess because she just wants to go home. When she learns that two Greek men, one of whom is her brother Orestes, are in danger, she has to choose between her duty to the local king and saving them, which kicks off a drama full of feelings and tough choices about life.