On November 4 - 8, the South Hill Park Arts Centre, a multi-purpose arts centre in Berkshire, UK, will host an exciting reworking of the Greek tragedy Electra, staged by the Found Space theatre company. "If you are a drama baby and enjoy life and death hanging in the balance then Greek Tragedy is for you," says director Bart Lee. After the success of Antigone, Found Space return to the gallery fusing theatre with art to retell the famous bloody tale of revenge. 

The plot is more or less known; in Greek mythology, Electra was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. What is less known is that Electra is the main character in two Greek tragedies, one by Sophocles and another by Euripides. Electra has not only conquered fiction. In psychology, what is known as the Electra complex is a girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.