Academy Award winner Brie Larson (Room) has signed on to make her West Finish debut in a brand new revival of Sophokles’s Elektra, translated by Canadian poet Anne Carson.
Directed by Daniel Fish (Oklahoma), performances will start at Theatre Royal Brighton from January 13 – 18, 2025, earlier than the manufacturing strikes to Duke of York’s Theatre in London for a strictly restricted 11-week season from January 24, 2025.
The manufacturing will mark the primary main revival of Sophokles’s Greek tragedy in over a decade. Director Fish is greatest recognized for his manufacturing of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, which gained the Tony Award for Finest Musical Revival in 2019 on Broadway earlier than transferring to the West Finish the place it gained the Oliver Award for Finest Musical Revival in 2023. Fish was additionally nominated for the Tony Award for Finest Path of a Musical in 2019.
Becoming a member of Daniel on the artistic group are Annie-B Parson (Choreography), Jeremy Herbert (Set Design), Doey Lüthi (Costume Design), Adam Silverman (Lighting Design), Max & Ben Ringham (Sound Design), Ted Hearne (Composer) Kate Godfrey (Voice & Dialect) with casting by Heather Basten CDG.
Elektra is produced by Empire Avenue Productions, who most not too long ago produced Slave Play at The Noël Coward Theatre starring Package Harrington and Olivia Washington in addition to Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer on the Harold Pinter Theatre in London and John Golden Theatre in New York. The corporate additionally helmed The Pillowman on the Duke of York’s starring Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton.
“I couldn’t be extra excited to carry out on this Greek drama, or in higher firm collaborating with Daniel Fish and Anne Carson,” Larson mentioned this morning. “Storytelling has at all times been the best way I arrange life, emotions, and experiences. I stay up for sharing house with the great West Finish viewers whereas we discover this timeless story.”
