Idea of how to portray the death of Agamemnon happy halloween

Being Halloween let's throw it out how to portray the death of Agamemnon. In the play, Agamemnon is pronounced dead when Clytemnestra opens their house doors standing over him with a bloody knife. Clytemnestra proclaims from the version The Agamemnon of Aeschylus...
"...By my hand he fell low, lies low down and dead,
And I shall bury him low down in the earth,
And his household need not to weep him
For Iphigeneia his daughter
Tenderly, as is right,
Will meet her father at the rapid ferry sorrows,
Put her arms around him and kiss him!"


It's sort of strange for the mother to claim happiness for the child which in her father sacrificed to the gods to win the Trojan War. Whatever!? So pretty intense scene. So would I rewrite the literature in showing the death of Agamemnon. HECK YES. Why not? Why is it alright for the senate to stab Caesar and not show the drama of a wife killing her unfaithful husband. In the picture above is a creepy painting already of how dramatic the scene would be. Clytemnestra with her new lover Aegisthus on the prowl of murder, but does this justify showing the killing. I say yes.


The justification of how we would portray this would still be clean. I am not claiming let's throw blood onto the audience from the bloody knife as she thrust it into him, but the shadow of death seeps onto the wall by what we percieve. A great example for this would be of course, Hitchcock.






 

Scary imaginations, right?

References.

MacNeice, Louis. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. New York: Brace and Companu, 1936.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4.