after Sophocles and Euripides
Translation: George Fotino and Alexandru Miran

Stage adaptation and artistic direction: Mihai Măniuţiu
Sets: Cristian Rusu and Mihai Măniuţiu
Costumes: Cristian Rusu
Music: Iza Group from Maramureş
Premiere date: 14.02.2004

The show "Electra" brings back to the audience the heartbreaking story of the royal family of Mycenae, focusing on the figures of Electra and Orestes, who seek to avenge the vicious murder of their father, understanding that without purification, the life of the city cannot go on. The tragedy of the two brothers is told by themselves, but also by the chorus and the coryphaeus and especially by the mournful songs of the Maramures group. The encounter of the texts from the great Greek tragedy with Romanian folk music creates on stage a space of confluence of archaic mythologies. The violins, drums, guitar and voices are constituted as "replies" that are disturbingly in agreement with the texts of Sophocles and Euripides. Revenge takes place as a ritual: recognition, preparation for the murder, the murder itself, after which, although justice has been done, the pain does not fall apart. A world is forcefully evoked in which the unwritten laws of honor, justice, and humanity attract appropriate revenge, to restore the moral balance of the universe.

Distribution:

Electra:  Mariana Presecan
Orestes:  Marian Ralea
Clytemnestra:  Suzana Macovei
The old man:  Ion Tomorrow
Aegisthus:  Serban Borda
Pilades:  Doru Presecan
Chrysothemis:  Angela Tanko
Coryphea:  Elvira Platon Rîmbu
Corypheus:  Doru Firte
Choir:  Mariana Neagu, Corina Cernea, Mirela Nita Lupu, Geo Dinescu, Anca Sigmirean, Oana Rusu, Richard Balint, Sebastian Lupu, Alexandru Rusu, Andrian Locovei, Petre Ghimbasan, Pavel Sirghi, Marius Damian

Technical director: Ofelia Fîrte
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Iosif Balogh, Sorin Precup, Sandor Attila Nagy