©THOMAS PALIVOS, ANDREAS GOUGOUSIS

ELECTRA BY SOPHOCLES

GREEK ART THEATRE KAROLOS KOUN 2020

For as long as her wounds keep on bleeding, she will never stop. Not until the blackness of the night gets drained. She will never stop. She will keep singing the endless song of rage. For her father’s murder. They tore his head with an axe; her mother and her cowardly lover. How can she go on living in the same house with his killers? How can she let her life fade away? How can a woman like her let this happen? What is there for her to do? How can a beloved blossom grow inside her? Not unless she thunders over the killers. Not unless she rises above her enemies. How, a woman like her? What else can she do?
The performance is both a theatre and music show that combines poetic speech, live music and acting. Dark, aggressive and atmospheric music turns Sophocles’s play into a heated hymn of the human soul against forces that try to impose a system of conformity. A band of actors —accompanied by one musician— reflect through action, words, songs and movement on the relationship between justification and submission, isolation and fertility.

Direction- Dramaturgy Aris Biniaris

Adaptation based on the translation by G. Chimonas Aris Biniaris

Music written and performed by Christos Georgopoulos

Movement Ioanna Toubakari, Aris Biniaris

Set design Kostis Karantanis

Costumes design Niki Psychogiou

Lighting design Sakis Birbilis

Metrical analysis Aikaterini Diamantakou

Video design Erato Tzavara

Sculpture Martha Fokas, Marina Mourtzi, Niki Psychogiou

Assistant to the director Dora Xagorari

Assistant to the costume designer Marina Mourtzi

Producer manager Katerina Diakoumopoulou

Assistant to the producer manager Ioanna Pitaouli

Produced by PERFORMING ARTS

Cast Eleni Boukli, Evelina Papoulia, Nikos Tsoleridis, Tasos Korkos, Leoni Xerovasila, Lena Mpozaki, Aris Biniaris, Katerina Dimati, Dimitris Mandrinos, Dora Xagorari