Based on Sophocles’ Electra and Aeschylus’ Eumenides
Adapted by David Bullen
Original Music by Joseph Robinson
16-19th November 2011 & 14th January 2012 @ Jane Holloway Hall, Royal Holloway University of London
Presented in association with the RHUL Classical Society, Electra-Orestes was a new play based on the myth of Electra and her brother, who reunite after ten years of separation to plot against their mother.The play premiered in Jane Holloway Hall at Royal Holloway, University of London, receiving highly positive feedback from students, academics and the general public. Responding to the feedback given, the play was workshopped in early 2012 and evolved into The Women Screaming Beyond.
Cast
Louise Parker ELECTRA
Ed Theakston ORESTES
James Walker-Black CLYTEMNESTRA / APOLLO
Miranda Blazeby AGAMEMNON / ATHENA
Helen Rowland CHRYSOTHEMIS
Sam Wright PYLADES
Alexander Woodward TUTOR
Freddie Clayton AEGISTHUS
Ilona-Jade Errington CHORUS
Lauren Hughes CHORUS
Lowri Jones CHORUS
Nicole Savin CHORUS
Lilian Tsang CHORUS
Beth Teverson FURY
Yazmin Vigus FURY
Natalie Woodward FURY
Full archival material can be found at Oxford University’s Archive for the Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. Please visit www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk for further details.