ELECTRA

OF SOPHOCLES

DIRECTOR FERNANDA ORAZI

FUNCTIONS

Del 27 de diciembre al 7 de enero, reposición en La Abadía.

26 y 27 de enero en Sevilla, Teatro Central (Sala B).

24 de febrero en Valladolid, LAVA.

8 y 9 de marzo en Granada, Teatro Alhambra.

24 y 25 de mayo en Alcalá de Henares, Corral de Comedias.

26 de mayo en Pozuelo, Teatro Mira.

SYNOPSIS

That which would make life unlivable, that from which we must flee as soon as possible, the theatre wants it. Like a hand holding a fire just to see it, it affirms it, seeks it and re-creates it. The theatre drinks, eats and reproduces itself in what we discard and banish as impossible to carry out in "real life". Electra is the trajectory of a sustained flame that challenges its own and the performance not to drop the fire and to raise the stakes of theatre as far as necessary. We have said Yes to this Electra and to the adventure of tackling a Greek tragedy that is also, for us, dramatic beings, the unactualisable. With a sustained Yes we have come this far to throw this promise into the arena of theatre in which, as in tragedy, not everything is in our hands.

BACK TO THE TRAGEDY?

(Extract from an interview with Fernanda Orazi, director of Electra, for the Teatro de La Abadía in Madrid).

"I like to think that it is more a going back to the Greco-Latin classics or a letting it come to us than a 'going back'. Going back means that we've already been there and therefore that we 'already know it', and that's not the case with us. This material revealed itself to us in rehearsals as absolutely new. We had to propitiate the scene to let it speak to us, to listen to it, to let it do something to us and act among us. This relationship gave us a different experience of creation that is unlike any other. Perhaps what is classic about a classic is that capacity to donate an experience that is always new and different to the extent that we do not relate to it as something already known. It doesn't matter which classic we are talking about, what doesn't matter is whether our intention is to conquer it with our prejudices or to know it".
Fernanda Orazi

Fernanda Orazi, directora de Electra (Foto de Luz Soria)_web

Fernanda Orazi directora, fotografía Luz Soria

ARTISTIC FILE

VERSIÓN:

FERNANDA ORAZI A PARTIR DE LA TRADUCCIÓN DE JOSÉ VELASCO Y GARCÍA
DIRECTION

FERNANDA ORAZI
CAST:

CARMEN ÁNGULO, JAVIER BALLESTEROS, LETICIA ETALA, JUAN PAÑOS

LIGHTING: DAVID PICAZO
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND SPACE: JAVIER NTACA
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO: LUZ SORIA
THANKS TEATRO DE LA ABADÍA. LAURA KLEIN, LA IMAGINARIA

UNA PRODUCCIÓN DE PILADES TEATRO

ESTRENADA EN EL TEATRO DE LA ABADÍA DE MADRID EL 12 DE ENERO DE 2023

PREMIO GODOT 2023
MEJOR DIRECCIÓN
FERNANDA ORAZI

Fotografía Luz Soria