Sophocles’ Electra: Actors in Space

Zusammenfassung

There is nothing unusual about a theatre director appearing reluctant to discuss a play which that director knows from the page but not from the rehearsal process. For a teacher of classical theatre to be equally diffident is more of a novelty. It is perhaps a tribute to the manner in which both the academic critic and the theatre practitioner have in recent years widened their horizons that it is possible for the two worlds of classical scholarship and professional production to meet in a forum such as this dedicated to the study of a single classical play, namely Sophocles’ Electra: and that each and everyone present will understand that there are things they may be able to learn from the perspective of a discipline different from their own.