Full Cast Confirmed To Join Brie Larson And Stockard Channing In Revival Of Sophokles’s Electrifying And Timeless Play ELEKTRA
Performances begin on 24 January 2025 at
DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE, LONDON
All information and tickets here
Empire Street Productions are delighted to today announce the full cast for ELEKTRA, the UK Premiere production of the translation by award winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s electrifying play.
Previously announced in the production are Brie Larson (Room, Lessons in Chemistry, Captain Marvel), who will be making her West End debut, as well as internationally renowned Stockard Channing (The West Wing, The Good Wife), Marième Diouf (Romeo and Juliet, The Globe), Greg Hicks (Grapes of Wrath, The National Theatre, Coriolanus, The Old Vic) and Patrick Vaill (Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Evening Standard Award winner for his role in Oklahoma!)
Completing the cast are Hannah Bristow, Wallis Currie-Wood, Jo Goldsmith-Eteson, Nardia Ruth, Rebecca Thorn, Adeola Yemitan and Arthur Boan.
All Cast and Creative Team biographies, as well as all ticket information, is at www.ElektraPlay.com
© Elektra company Rehearsals Day 1 by Helen Murray
Helmed by the acclaimed director Daniel Fish (Oklahoma), performances will begin at Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 January 2025, before the production moves to Duke of York’s Theatre in London for a strictly limited 11-week season from Friday 24 January 2025 (Press Night: Wednesday 5 February 2025).
This will be the first major revival of Sophokles’s Greek tragedy in over a decade and will be directed by Daniel Fish. His acclaimed production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival in 2019 on Broadway before transferring to the West End where it won the Oliver Award for Best Musical Revival in 2023. Fish was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2019.
Joining Daniel on the creative team are Annie-B Parson (Choreography), Jeremy Herbert (Set Design), Doey Lüthi (Costume Design), Adam Silverman (Lighting Design), Max & Ben Ringham (Sound Design), Ted Hearne (Composer) Kate Godfrey (Voice & Dialect) with casting by Heather Basten CDG.
“There is something bad here, growing. Day and night
I watch it. Growing.”
Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief; a need for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion but at what cost?
Elektra is produced by Empire Street Productions, who most recently produced Slave Play at The Noël Coward Theatre starring Kit Harrington and Olivia Washington; the widely acclaimed Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London and John Golden Theatre in New York; as well as The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s starring Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
ELEKTRA
By Sophokles
Translated by Anne Carson
Creative Team
Directed by Daniel Fish
Choreography by Annie-B Parson
Set Design by Jeremy Herbert
Costume Design by Doey Lüthi
Lighting Design by Adam Silverman
Sound Design by Max & Ben Ringham
Composer Ted Hearne
Casting by Heather Basten cdg
Voice & Dialect Kate Godfrey
Costume Supervisor Deborah Andrews
Cast
Brie Larson - Elektra
Stockard Channing - Clytemnestra
Marième Diouf - Chrysothemis
Greg Hicks - Aegisthus
Patrick Vaill - Orestes
Hannah Bristow - Chorus
Wallis Currie-Wood - Chorus
Jo Goldsmith-Eteson - Chorus
Nardia Ruth - Chorus
Rebecca Thorn - Chorus
Adeola Yemitan - Chorus
Arthur Boan - Understudy
Theatre Royal Brighton
Monday 13 - Saturday 18 January 2025 (Previews) |New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD
Box Office
Brighton performances
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Saturday Matinee 3pm
Duke of York’s Theatre, London
Friday 24 January – Saturday 12 April 2025
Press Night: Wednesday 5 February 2025
St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4BG
Box Office
0333 009 6690
Groups & Schools rates apply
London performances
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday Matinees 3pm starting Thu 30 Jan & Sat 1 Feb
DAY SEATS
10 seats released each performance day. Maximum of two per person.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN LOTTERY
20 tickets per performance for the week released the Wednesday before.
Signed & Audio Described & Captioned Performance (captioned by Stagetext):
4th March and 25th February
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