ELEKTRA receives New York premiere at Theatre for a New Audience.
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?
Daniel Fish directs the first major New York revival in three decades of Sophokles' 2500-year-old tragedy, in a translation of startling immediacy by MacArthur-winning poet Anne Carson. With choral songs composed by Ted Hearne, this is an Elektra as visceral as it is timeless.