Elektra
By Elizabeth Brendel Horn
Elektra is a play that needs 10 to 40 performers (5 women, 4 men, 1 any gender). Licensed by YouthPLAYS.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 10 to 40 performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 4 men, 1 any gender
- Cast notes
- 5 females, 4 males, 1+ any gender (10-40+ performers possible). Elektra premiered at Timber Creek High School Thespians (Orlando, FL) in 2014. The author grants productions pre-approval to make cuts
- Running time
- About 35 minutes
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- YouthPLAYS
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Synopsis
Following the brutal murder of her father at the hands of her mother, Elektra is trapped, in body and mind, as she yearns for revenge and contends with the voices in her head. Where is she? How did she get there? Where is her brother, Orestes? And why does the doctor who visits her seem so...familiar? Through a fusion of elevated and contemporary language—and with a Greek chorus that lends itself to movement-based storytelling— Elektra tells the ancient Greek tragedy with a dynamic and provocati
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