Elektra / Orestes

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Elektra / Orestes
By Jada Alberts & Anne-Louise Sarks Director Anne-Louise Sarks
14 March - 26 April I Upstairs Theatre

Elektra's life is a mess. She's stuck living with her mother. Which is bad enough, but it was her mother who murdered her father. Her step-father is not much older than her and has all too happily taken her father's position as king. And her sister doesn't even care! She's sided with their mother and taken up gardening like nothing ever happened.

Elektra sent her little brother Orestes into exile when he was just 11. He was the next in line for her father's throne and had to be protected from their step-father. Nine years later he has come of age. Now he's on way to the palace to join Elektra and take the ultimate revenge against their mother. There will be blood.

Anne-Louise Sarks (Medea) has forged a remarkable series of shows by combining the full force of old tales with the uncanny familiarity of modern life. Here she teams with playwright Jada Alberts (Brothers Wreck) to create spectacle of retribution, love, justice and power.

Hunter Page-Lochard (Brothers Wreck) is the perfect contemporary Orestes; Katherine Tonkin the Elektra for our times. They are joined by Linda Cropper (Offspring 10), Ben Winspear (A Place to Call Home 7) and Sydney Theatre Award nominee Ursula Mills.

In this darkly funny play the ancient Greeks violently collide with a very modern royal family in a showdown for the ages. Unsurprisingly this production will feature swearing, smoking, blood, violence and sex.