ELECTRA

BY SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES AND AESCHYLUS ADAPTATION ALBERT ARRIBAS DIRECTION ALÍCIA GORINA IT TEATRE LLIURE

##general.period##:: 27/02 — 23/03/25
##general.room##:: Montjuïc. Espai Lliure

Timetable

School performances
Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. (since 05/03)

Family performances
Thursday to Saturday at 19.30 p.m.
Sunday at 18.30 p.m.

Running time

2 h 15’

Place

Espai Lliure

Language

In Catalan

Price

€7 - €32 / Preview 26/02, 12 €

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

Recommended ages

+15

Show included in

on Reverberacions IT Teatre Lliure

and on the School Programme
Booking by laCultivadora

ON TOUR
24/03 - 01/06/25
open booking

Description

The director Alícia Gorina is once again revisiting tragedy and presenting three classic versions of Electra: three different authors and a brief history of Western theatre for the new IT Teatre Lliure project.

The episode involving the murder of Clytemnestra by two of her children, Orestes and Electra, which is so important in terms of the idea of revenge and a shift in the justice paradigm to fit Athens’ new democratic order—and, incidentally, from the ancient matriarchy to the modern patriarchy—is the only episode in classical mythology covered by all three Greek tragic playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, by Aeschylus in his play The Libation Bearers, part of the Oresteia trilogy, and by Sophocles and Euripides in their respective plays entitled Electra. The fact that the same episode is recounted by all three authors enables us to very clearly see how Greek tragedy, and therefore theatre, evolved and built upon its own origins from one author to another, both in form and style and in content, discourse and thinking.
— Alícia Gorina

With IT Teatre Lliure, the play created with graduates of the Institut del Teatre will be produced by the Llliure and shown in the Espai Lliure, which will become its reference venue. More shows are scheduled at the Lliure than in the previous IT Teatre project, and a circuit to share it around Catalonia is being planned for the 24/25 season as part of the Perspectives programme, accompanied by the pilot programme of the Reverberacions IT Teatre Lliure artistic-community mediation designed by Marta Galán Sala.

A project promoted by the Teatre Lliure, the Institut del Teatre and the Culture Area of the Barcelona Provincial Council.