Electra

His extraordinary stroke with Electra is to seize on the brevities of Greek tragedy and whittle them down even further

The result - a lethal little piece, bristling with menacing meanings and consequences, representing a total minefield

We watch in horror as the characters blunder through it

His Electra is self-righteously correct, mad and disastrous

His Orestes, rather than god-enlightened, is a hesitant teenager blinded by a vision of new beginnings

All the characters have a dubious mixture of self-deluding, self-interested and high-minded motives

It resonates powerfully for all of us watching similar stories unfolding in the Middle East, Congo, Rwanda, the USA and Northern Ireland' ~ Bob Tait