Mackenzie Krestul presents
The Iphigeniamachine
Crew:
Director: Harrison Campbell
Playwright: Mackenzie Robin Krestul
Beckmann Theatre
May 12-17, 2026
ABOUT THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE
An experimental deconstruction of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis in the age of AI and forever wars.
This dissection of the classic Iphigenia at Aulis takes place in a technofeudal, post-apocalyptic ice age. There, amidst the unfamiliar rubble of her life, a nameless girl searches for her identity and freedom from her father’s war machine. After the traditions of Magda Romanska and Heiner Müller, The Iphigeniamachine dismantles the original mythology to expose a perilous underbelly of atrocity, complacency, and glorified masculinity.
Content Indicators: depictions of blood, violence, and sexual acts. Appropriate for audiences over the age of 18.
Runtime approx 1 hour.
Stage Manager: Kim Bramwell
Sound Designer and Composer: J. D. Goodman
Lighting Designer: Tori Bogacki
Puppet Designer: Annie McGowan
Costume Designer: Kat Quiñones
Intimacy Coordinator: Alice Camarota
Fight Director: Alex Kopnick
Dramaturg: Charlotte Edsall
Cast:
Chorus: Quinn Andrews
Chorus: Kaitlyn Rose RaBocse
Calchus/Chorus: Sam Hardy
Puppeteer/The Deer: Emily McManus
Agamemnon: Travis Bergmann
Clytemnestra: Cadence Lamb
Iphigenia: Mackenzie Robin Krestul