Synopsis
Electra
Published by Capercaille Books
His extraordinary stroke with Electra is to seize on the brevities of Greek tragedy and whittle them down even further
The result - a lethal little piece, bristling with menacing meanings and consequences, representing a total minefield
We watch in horror as the characters blunder through it
His Electra is self-righteously correct, mad and disastrous
His Orestes, rather than god-enlightened, is a hesitant teenager blinded by a vision of new beginnings
All the characters have a dubious mixture of self-deluding, self-interested and high-minded motives
It resonates powerfully for all of us watching similar stories unfolding in the Middle East, Congo, Rwanda, the USA and Northern Ireland' ~ Bob Tait