Elektra Tickets

Do you love a powerful plot with potent themes, played out by equally powerful acting talent? You'll find this new adaptation of the legendary Sophocles play Elektra a real thrill, coming to the capital for a strictly limited, completely unmissable run.

Elektra - The story

This epic tragedy is set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, where a bitter struggle for justice takes place after Elektra and Orestes' father Agamemnon is brutally murdered by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus. Expect particularly brilliant scenes where Elektra's heroic resolution and sheer determination fall under constant attack.

About Elektra

This is the first major revival in over a decade of the playwright's still-electrifying play. It might be almost 2500 years old but this compelling Ancient Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles some time between the years 420 and 414 BC, hasn't lost any of its appeal. The Ancient Roman writer Cicero said it was a masterpiece, and so it remains.

Elektra has been adapted several times including a 1949 play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming, a 1995 opera by Mikis Theodorakis, and a 2010 IMalayalam language psychological drama movie co-written and directed by the Indian film maker and actor Shyamaprasad.

Elektra cast and creatives

Starring Brie Larson (Room, Lessons in Chemistry, Captain Marvel), and directed by Daniel Fish (Oklahoma), it has been translated by the award-winning poet Anne Carson.

The internationally renowned Stockard Channing (The West Wing, The Good Wife) joins Marième Diouf (Romeo and Juliet at The Globe Theatre), Greg Hicks (Grapes of Wrath at The National Theatre, Coriolanus) and Patrick Vaill (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), who won an Evening Standard Award for his role in Oklahoma!