Elektra

Brace yourself for ancient drama’s most relentless obsessive. Years of lamenting her father’s murder at her mother’s hands have hardened Elektra into a vessel of incandescent rage. But when her brother Orestes returns home to consummate their revenge, the two discover the terrible costs of getting one’s savage way.

Daniel Fish (Oklahoma!) directs the first major New York revival in three decades of Sophokles‘ 2,500-year-old tragedy, in a translation of startling immediacy by MacArthur-winning poet Anne Carson. With choral songs composed by Ted Hearne, this is an Elektra as visceral as it is timeless.