Electra, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-09-10

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Electra (translation by Ian Johnston), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Robert Groves (The University of Arizona). Featured actors include Carlos Bellato, Tim Delap, Bettina Joy de Guzman, Lanah Koelle, Evelyn Miller, Paul O'Mahony, Eunice Roberts, and David Rubin.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To learn about the Medea scene competition, visit https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

The text is available at http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/euripides/electrahtml.html.

Scene selections:
1-82: Peasant, Electra
82-400: Orestes, Electra, Chorus, Pylades 
487-613: Old Man, Electra, Orestes, Chorus, Pylades 
774-843: Messenger 
961-1355: Orestes, Electra, Chorus, Clytaemnestra, Dioscuri (Castor and Polydeuces), Pylades  

Credits: 
Peasant - Carlos Bellato
Electra - Evelyn Miller
Orestes - Tim Delap
Pylades/Messenger - Paul O’Mahony
Chorus - Bettina Joy de Guzman and Lanah Koelle
Old Man - David Rubin
Clytaemnestra - Eunice Roberts
Castor and Polydeuces - Carlos Bellato

Director - Paul O'Mahony

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.

Suggested further reading:
1) Goff, B. 1999–2000. "Try to make it real compared to what? Euripides’ Electra and the play of genres." In Special Issue: Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century. Edited by Martin Cropp and Kevin Lee. Illinois Classical Studies 24–25:93–105.
 
2) Torrance, I. 2011. "In the footprints of Aeschylus: Recognition, allusion, and metapoetics in Euripides." American Journal of Philology 132.2: 177–204.

3) Luschnig, C. A. E. 1995. The Gorgon’s severed head: Studies of Alcestis, Electra, and Phoenissae. Mnemosyne/Supplementum 153. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.