Empire Street Productions have confirmed this week the full cast for Elektra…
The UK Premiere production of the translation by award winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s play sees the previously announced Brie Larson, who will be making her West End debut, as well as internationally renowned Stockard Channing, Marième Diouf, Greg Hicks and Patrick Vaill. Completing the cast are Hannah Bristow, Wallis Currie-Wood, Jo Goldsmith-Eteson, Nardia Ruth, Rebecca Thorn, Adeola Yemitan and Arthur Boan.
Helmed by the acclaimed director Daniel Fish performances will begin at Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 January 2025, before the production moves to Duke of York’s Theatre in London for a strictly limited 11-week season from Friday 24 January 2025.
This will be the first major revival of Sophokles’s Greek tragedy in over a decade, “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?
Elektra is produced by Empire Street Productions, who most recently produced Slave Play at The Noël Coward Theatre starring Kit Harrington and Olivia Washington; the widely acclaimed Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London and John Golden Theatre in New York; as well as The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s starring Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton.
Theatre Royal Brighton
Monday 13 – Saturday 18 January 2025
New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD
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Brighton performances
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Saturday Matinee 3pm
Duke of York’s Theatre, London
Friday 24 January – Saturday 12 April 2025
St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4BG
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London performances
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday Matinees 3pm starting Thu 30 Jan & Sat 1 Feb
