SOPHOCLES’ ELECTRA, THE LAST BLOOD | 13 – 16.07.2015

Theatro Technis Karolos Koun, Frynichou

Athens and Epidaurus Festival

Agamemnon kills a deer and a daughter. Clytemnestra murders him in the bath upon his return. Aegisthus spreads fear and imposes confinement. Chrysothemis learns how to survive. Electra never learns. Orestes, exiled for years, returns to turn words into action. Everyone and everything moves between whispers and silences.

 

In the still waters of a sea that has become a lake, rises the monument of a prosperity that has reached its end. The House of Atreus, possessed for years by the murderous obsession of its ancestral Curse, seeks the restoration of ancient sins. The act of remembrance awakens the heroes of the present and the past in a story where each becomes the Fury of the other.

Power is exercised and withdrawn upon a table and a bed—places where humans eat and bring other humans into the world. The circle of blood closes in the same way it opened: through deceit. The once-defeated become the next victors, weary and powerless from waiting for a catharsis that never arrives.

Was it meant to be this way?

It was meant to be this way.

 

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 

Director: Konstantinos Ntellas

Cast (in alphabetical order): Olga Lazaridou, Gerasimos Michelis, Zoe Xanthopoulou, Fani Panagiotidou, Giorgos Christodoulou

Translation: Giorgos Cheimonas

Dramaturgy Consultant: Anna Mavroleon

Music: Giannis Aggelakas

Set & Costume Design: Andreas Skourtis

Lighting: Melina Mascha

Sound Editing: Coti K

Assistant Director: Elena Georgiou

Music Playback (Computer): Kalliopi Takaki

Assistant Set Designers: Konstantina Mardiki, Nefeli Sotiropaki, Meera Osborne

Production Execution: Kalliopi Takaki in collaboration with the Art Theatre – Karolos Koun

Production: Athens Festival

 

In the performance participate voluntarily a team of drama school students.