Further casting announced for revival of Sophokles's ELEKTRA
Empire Street Productions have announced further casting for ELEKTRA, the UK premiere production of the translation by award-winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s electrifying play, which will play a limited 11-week season at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre from 24 January 2025.
The previously announced Brie Larson, who will be making her West End debut, will be joined by internationally renowned Stockard Channing (The West Wing, The Good Wife) as Clytemnestra, Marième Diouf (Romeo and Juliet, The Globe) as Chrysothemis, Greg Hicks (Grapes of Wrath, The National Theatre; Coriolanus, The Old Vic) as Aegisthus, and Patrick Vaill (Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Evening Standard Award winner for his role in Oklahoma!) as Orestes.
Full casting will be announced at a later date.
Helmed by the acclaimed director Daniel Fish, performances will begin at Theatre Royal Brighton from 13-18 January 2025, before the production moves to the West End. 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?
