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 · Melbourne · Sydney · Dortmund
In Greek with local 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.
Reviews of the stage production
Selected press“An outstanding reimagining of Sophocles’ classic.”
Georgia Economou, News 24/7
“The production does not imitate antiquity. It translates it.”
Sotiris Souloukos
All About Arts
“Aglaia Pappa’s Clytemnestra is outstanding.”
Tonia Karaoglou
Athinorama
“Loukia Michalopoulou delivers Electra with breathtaking intensity.”
Georgia Economou
News 24/7
Review excerpts translated from Greek.
Upcoming screenings.
Theatre on screen
Dortmund
2 screenings
Germany
All times are local.
Greek with German subtitles · 100 minutes
Standard €16 · Reduced €15
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Lichtspiel und Kunsttheater Schauburg
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Lichtspiel und Kunsttheater Schauburg
Schauburg booking listing · Booking via Ticket Cloud.
Past screenings
Previously presented in cinemas and at festivals around the world.
New York
United States
- Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony SpaceU.S. premiere
Melbourne
Australia
- Palace Balwyn CinemaGreek Film Festival
- Palace WestgarthGreek Film Festival
- Palace Cinema ComoGreek Film Festival
- Palace Penny LaneGreek Film Festival
- Pentridge CinemaGreek Film Festival
- The Astor TheatreGreek Film Festival
Sydney
Australia
- Palace Norton StreetGreek Film Festival · Closing night
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