Full cast confirmed for revival of Sophokles's electrifying and timeless play ELEKTRA
Photo credit: Helen Murray
Empire Street Productions have announced the full cast for ELEKTRA, the UK premiere production of the translation by award-winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s electrifying play, which plays at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre from 24 January 2025.
Helmed by the acclaimed director Daniel Fish, the production will initially play at Theatre Royal Brighton from 13-18 January 2025, before moving to the West End.
Joining the previously announced Brie Larson, who will be making her West End debut, Stockard Channing, Marième Diouf, Greg Hicks and Patrick Vaill are Hannah Bristow, Wallis Currie-Wood, Jo Goldsmith-Eteson, Nardia Ruth, Rebecca Thorn, Adeola Yemitan and Arthur Boan.
This will be the first major revival of Sophokles’s Greek tragedy in over a decade.
Joining Daniel Fish on the creative team are choreographer Annie-B Parson, set designer Jeremy Herbert, costume designer Doey Lüthi, lighting designer Adam Silverman, sound designers Max & Ben Ringham, composer Ted Hearne, and casting director Heather Basten CDG.
“There is something bad here, growing. Day and night
I watch it. Growing.”
Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief; a need for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion but at what cost?
