Clytemnestra

While in the Graham troupe, Mr. Wagoner originated roles in “Clytemnestra,” “Acrobats of God” and “Episodes,” among other works.

Something you don’t want to hear after getting married: “Now that’s a coincidence. My birth mother’s name was Clytemnestra de Nunkyhaven, too!”

In Icke’s “Oresteia,” mirroring the violence is never the intention; we encounter the war only through the perspective of the family, more precisely through Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.

The following year, she was Clytemnestra in a Circle in the Square production of “Iphigenia in Aulis.”

Only the scene where Clytemnestra counsels her daughter to grit her teeth and bear it is persuasive and sobering.