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Electra
Tom McGrath Price: $17.99
‘As a dramatist, Tom McGrath’s great strength is to pare
things down to the fewest possible words, the sparsest settings,
only the most elemental action
His extraordinary stroke with Electra is to seize on the brevities of Greek tragedy and whittle them down even further
The result - a lethal little piece, bristling with menacing meanings and consequences, representing a total minefield
We watch in horror as the characters blunder through it
His Electra is self-righteously correct, mad and disastrous
His Orestes, rather than god-enlightened, is a hesitant teenager blinded by a vision of new beginnings
All the characters have a dubious mixture of self-deluding, self-interested and high-minded motives
It resonates powerfully for all
of us watching similar stories unfolding in the Middle East,
Congo, Rwanda, the USA and Northern Ireland’ ~ Bob Tait
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