Orestes presented by Shared Experience @ The Tricycle, London

Electra was really good although I couldn't help thinking that they should have cast someone younger for that role. Same for Orestes - both are good performers. Another encounter with a new play so it was therefore quite invigorating. I realise that I tend to watch certain plays over and over again; e.g. Hamlet - with Toby Stevens, Ralph Fiennes, Adrian Lester or Death of a Salesman or your various Ibsens, plays which I've read or studied and watching it becomes a bit of a Brechtian reconstruction of events with an academic detatchment.

Amongst all other genres of theatre, Greek drama has got great, strong and flawed female characters - Antigone, Medea, Electra, Clytemnestra, Helen of Troy even... Pretty Rad!