Gate, London"I found your story very difficult to listen to." So says Electra to Strophius, who has told her of her brother's death. And so say I to director Carrie Cracknell and adapter Nick Payne, who have made of Sophocles' tragedy a punishing 70 minutes in the theatre. The challenge with this shard of grief in dramatic form is to make its maddened heroine, and her fundamentalist take on justice, sympathetic to a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PM on April 13, 2011