And that includes the final, vulgar miscalculation of the huge golden phallus carried through the crowd. Athena, although charmingly played by Serbian Branka Katic, appears, in her blindingly gold dress, like a quiz-show hostess. It is in a different emotional register: jauntily moralising as it sets up history’s first murder trial. But the third play incompletely satisfies. Mira Calix’s music adds a melancholy dimension with clarinet, horn and saxophone.īy the end of the second play, two bloodbaths down and hoping for a cathartic finish, one is reeling. And Rosie Hilal as his sister, Electra, has a moving naturalness. As Orestes, Joel MacCormack has the gift for making you believe every word, a perfectly pitched urgency. Her beautiful speaking voice makes her violent words all the more obscene. Katy Stephens as Clytemnestra is the stuff of nightmare, dressed in what looks like a Mary Quant black and white maxi-dress soon to turn scarlet.
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