She is joined onstage by Stockard Channing as Clytemnestra, Elektra’s mother and one of Agamemnon’s killers, Marième Diouf as Chrysothemis, the sister of Elektra, Greg Hicks as Aegisthus, ...

Of course, the scenario is far from everyday: Elektra is consumed by the desire for bloody revenge against her mother, who with her lover Aegisthus (Greg Hicks) murdered her husband Agamemnon on ...

Running to only 75 minutes, Sophokles’s play opens with Elektra grieving the death of her father Agamemnon, who has been murdered by her mother Clytemnestra (working with her lover Aegisthus) as ...

Oh, and spitting – lots and lots of spitting, whenever the name of Aegisthus (Greg Hicks), Clytemnestra’s lover, comes up, which is often. A chorus of women in vaguely classical drapery and ...

Fish doesn’t let a single line go un-weirded. Everytime anyone says Aegisthus (Clytemnestra’s new husband), everyone spits. When they say Orestes they pat their chests. When Elektra says the ...

That they do not, although there’s a flicker of dramatic hope in Greg Hicks’ slithering Aegisthus and Stockard Channing’s Clytemnestra, dripping with waspish verve. A shame they are not ...

In Ben and Max Ringham’s soundscape and under Adam Silverman’s bleak lights, a gunshot sounds whenever Elektra talks of the murder of her father Agamemnon; a slap greets the mention of her brother ...

In his absence, she also took up with his cousin, Aegisthus. Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s two other daughters, Elektra (stylised with a k in this production) and Chrysothemis, have been in the ...

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Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon’s son Orestes is ...

The full cast joining Oscar winner Brie Larson in the UK premiere of Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Elektra, has been revealed. Under the direction of Tony Award nominee Daniel Fish (Oklahoma ...