Electra

Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy 'Electra' has graced the New York stage in various definitive, grand-scale revivals, most famously under the banner of the Theatre Guild and David Leveaux’s acclaimed 1998 Broadway production at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The intense, blood-soaked narrative charts the obsessive, unrelenting psychological campaign of a daughter who demands absolute vengeance against her mother Clytemnestra for the assassination of her father, King Agamemnon. Most famously presented in Burgess Worth's translation, the 1998 production achieved historic status due to Zoë Wanamaker’s monumental performance as Electra alongside Claire Bloom and Michael Cumpsty.