Melpo presents · A production of Poreia Theatre
Sophocles’ Electra
Premiered at Epidaurus in 2025 and reimagined for the intimacy of the indoor stage, Dimitri Tarlow’s Electra returns to a palace still celebrating Agamemnon’s murder, waiting for the next act of violence.
New York screening: in Greek with English subtitles.
First seen at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in 2025, Sophocles’ Electra toured Greece and Cyprus before Dimitri Tarlow and Poreia Theatre reimagined it for the intimacy of the indoor stage. This is not simply the Epidaurus production brought inside: its world has been rebuilt for the close focus of Poreia Theatre.
Every month, the palace celebrates Agamemnon’s murder. Songs and live music move through a household that is already collapsing as Clytemnestra prepares another feast, Electra waits for justice and Orestes returns home.
Electra is caught between the demand for justice and the moral cost of violence. Is revenge a form of resistance, or does it simply continue the cycle of blood? Sophocles offers no easy answer; the consequences fall on those who survive.
“The production transforms the ritual weight of the tragedy into a contemporary, refined experience.”
Tonia Karaoglou, Athinorama
11 October
2026
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space
- Date
- Sunday, October 11, 2026
- Time
- 7:30 p.m. local time
- Expected runtime
- 100 minutes
- Special event
- The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Dimitri Tarlow.
- Tickets
- Members $22 · Seniors $24 · Non-members $25 · $2 service fee
- Performance language
- Greek
- Subtitles
- English
- Accessibility
- View Symphony Space accessibility information
Cast
- Electra
- Loukia Michalopoulou
- Clytemnestra
- Aglaia Pappa
- Orestes
- Konstantinos Zografos
- Aegisthus
- Dimitri Tarlow
- Chrysothemis
- Grigoria Metheniti
- Pedagogue
- Konstantinos Avarikiotis
- Pylades
- Periklis Siountas
- Chorus women
- Ioanna Lekka and Eleni Vlachou
- On-stage musician
- Tasos Mysirlis
Creative team
- Translation
- Giorgos Chimonas
- Direction
- Dimitri Tarlow
- Sets and costumes
- Paris Mexis
- Music composition
- Fotis Siotas
- Lighting design
- Alekos Anastasiou
- Choreography
- Markella Manoliadi, Maro Stavrinou
- Sound design and editing
- Dimitris Migiakis
- Filming
- Alekos Bourelias, Christos Bourelias and Alexander Haritakis
- Video editing
- archlabyrinth (Alekos Bourelias and Christos Bourelias)
- Subtitling
- Melpo
- Associate dramaturg
- Eri Kyrgia
- Assistant director
- Aristi Tselou
- Assistant set and costumes designer
- Despoina - Maria Zachariou
- Assistant lighting designers
- Haris Dallas, Nafsika Christodoulakou
- Make-up design
- Olga Faleichyk
- Hair design
- Thomas Galazoulas
- Photos
- Patroklos Skafidas