Benedict Andrews’s “Electra/Persona” at the National Theatre: This Study In Ambiguity And Contradiction Is Pointless As Well As Gripping
“What if?” is a really provocative question. What if Greek tragedy is really about mental illness? What if Clytemnestra’s killing of her husband Agamemnon is not vengeance, but psychosis? What if her daughter Electra is terminally depressed? What if Electra’s sister Chrysothemis is on the spectrum? Then what if you read Sophocles’s Electra (circa 420–414BCE) […] The full version of the article Benedict …
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