Electra
By Rob Crisell
Electra is a play that needs 7 to 10 performers (3 women, 4 men, 3 any gender). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 7 to 10 performers
- Roles
- 3 women, 4 men, 3 any gender
- Cast notes
- 3-4 m, 3 w, 3 flexible, extras
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- greek
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
Electra is a young woman who mourns—and ultimately avenges with the help of her brother Orestes—her father Agamemnon’s murder. The story is based on a lost epic of ancient Greek literature, set in a period between Homer’s Iliad and his Odyssey. This show explores the psychological costs of resisting evil in a society bent on ignoring or even sustaining that evil. Written in blank verse, the language is conversational despite its formality. Poetry best expresses that ...
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