DEBORAH WARNER
theatre - opera - installations
director
photographs © Neil Libbert - subject to copyright
photographs © Ivan Kyncl - subject to copyright
Electra, 1988 -1992
Sophocles
translated by Kenneth McLeish
Royal Shakespeare Company
1988-1989 The Pit, Barbican Centre, London
1991-1992 UK and International Tour - Thelma Holt
Tour presented by Thelma Holt, in arrangement with Duncan C Weldon and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Co-produced with MC93 Bobigny, with help from the Hellenic Foundation and sponsorship from Royal Insurance
Performances: The Pit, London, 14 December 1988 -11 February 1989; Riverside Studios, 2 December 1991- 4 January 1992; MC93 Bobigny, Paris, 14 - 25 January, 1992; Tramway, Glasgow, 12 - 15 February 1992; Transport Museum, Bradford, 1992; Templemore Sports Complex, Derry, 1992.
Creative Team
Director - Deborah Warner
Designer - Hildegard Bechtler
Lighting - Geraint Pugh (1989); Jean Kalman (1991-92)
Company voice work - Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg
1989 Cast
Servant of Orestes - Sylvester Morand
Orestes - Piers Ibbotson
Pylades - Derek Hutchinson
Electra - Fiona Shaw
Chorus of the Women of Argos - Darlene Johnson, Kate Littlewood, Franchine Mulrooney, Sonia Ritter, Julia Swift
Chrysothemis - Susan Colverd
Clytemnestra - Natasha Parry
Aegisthus - Gordon Case
1991-1992 Cast
Electra - Fiona Shaw
Chrysothemis - Susan Colverd
Clytemnestra - Sheila Gish
Orestes - John Lynch
Pylades - Richard Leaf
Servant - Philip Locke
Aegisthus - Gordon Case
Chorus - Kate Littlewood, Annette Badland, Margery Withers, Ursula Jones, Gabrielle Lloyd
Walking understudy - Jane Montgomery