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Electra

on Network Three

by Euripides
Translated from the Greek by David Thompson
with Eileen Atkins as Electra, Ian McKellen as her brother, Orestes, Mary Morris as her mother Queen Clytaemnestra and Robert Harris as the Tutor

Music for this production composed and conducted by John Beckett

(To be repeated on February 27)

(Eileen Atkins is appearing in The Killing of Sister George at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
null Euripides
Translator:
David Thompson
Composer/Conductor:
John Beckett
Producer:
John Tydeman
Electra:
Eileen Atkins
Her brother, Orestes:
Ian McKellen
Her mother Queen Clytaemnestra:
Mary Morris
The Tutor:
Robert Harris
Peasant, husband to Electra:
Denys Hawthorne
Pylades, friend of Orestes:
Gary Watson
First Chorus:
Mary O'Farrell
Second Chorus:
Peggy Marshall
Third Chorus:
Kate Binchy
Voice of Castor:
Hector Ross

Network Three

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