Boris Yeltsin takes Aeschylus’ Oresteia as a starting-point, but moves away from it to inscribe itself at the heart of the so-called ‘contemporary, Western and democratic’ world. In it, we find once again the ‘classic’ father-mother-son triangle: Agamemnon, the former leader of a totalitarian state that has become a liberal democracy; Clytemnestra, a woman concerned with household and extramarital affairs; and Orestes, a young man looking for an identity of his own. In the middle of this triangle stands Cassandra, a young woman who is kept locked in a room by the father; the mother longs to have her throat cut, while the son wants to “show her the sea”... Just your average family? A collaboration between stage director Nuno M Cardoso and playwright Mickaël de Oliveira, Boris Yeltsin is an incursion, full of black humour and biting irony, into the b-side of domestic life, but also into the spectacle of political discretionarity and its devastating consequences in a world that celebrates moral and economic bankruptcy.