Electra Garrigo

Performed by BA (Hons) Acting students.

By Virgilio Pinera
Translated by Kate Eaton
Director: Gregory Thompson

'Electra Garrigo is a modern drama for a nation that is 'tragic and comic at the same time.'  Virgilio Pinera

Pinera transplants the classic Greek tragedy to modern-day Havana into a bathetic 'anti-tragedy' which parodies both Greek myth and Cuban 1940s society.

At the heart of the Garrigo family, daughter Electra plots her deadly revenge on her parents - the tyrannical patriarch Agamemnon and the faithless matriarch Clytemnestra, whilst son Orestes dreams of leaving Cuba and escaping the clutches of his mother's obsessive love.  Clytemnestra hates Electra and Agamemnon in equal measure and, as she binds Orestes ever closer, is fixated on her lover, smooth-talking trickster Aegisthus Don.

An elderly centaur, Orestes and Electra's tutor, trots around imparting his existentialist philosophy, imploring his charges to clamour for revolution; whilst the household servants pad like silent mocking shadows amongst their masters before leaving Agamemnon and Clytemnestra to their fate.

Electra Garrigo is presented at Central in a British premiere of a new English translation.

Box Office opens 16 January
Monday - Friday, 10am - 4:30pm
Saturday, 12pm - 2:30pm
Additional opening on performance nights, 6:00-7:30pm

To book:
Telephone: 020 7722 8183
Email: boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk
Tickets: £10 adults; £5 students & concessions (suitable ID required)

Tickets should be collected 15 minutes prior to the start of the performance.  Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance. Please note seating is limited in the Webber Douglas Studio