The Ex Factor  Note to Greek husbands: Killing child not best
idea  Clytemnestra, the vengeful wife of Agamemnon, has enlisted
many of the theater's great grande dames in her deadly service.
Kim Hunter, Florence Stanley, Irene Worth, Gloria Foster, Diana
Rigg, Claire Bloom, and Fiona Shaw have all played the queen—a
scorned woman whose consuming anger over the murder of her
daughter compels her to seek revenge on the perpetrator, her
unfaithful husband.  For anyone fortunate enough to catch the
Persona Theater Company's current production of Clytemnestra's
Tears at La MaMa, the temptation will be great to rank the Greek
actress Themis Bazaka among that pantheon of thespians.
Virtually unknown in this country, Bazaka delivers a performance
of jolting power and tear-streaked pathos. It's a brave,
brilliant spectacle, a portrait of rage as it shades
irreversibly into madness.  An hour-long monologue performed in
Greek with English surtitles, Clytemnestra's Tears amounts to a
sustained wail of grief. The play, wr