Can Movie Stars Handle Greek Classics? London Is Finding Out.
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is taking on Elektra.
Elektra starring Brie Larson is a strange, boring play
After two and a half millennia, Sophocles can still pull in a crowd. This week saw the opening of Oedipus at the Old Vic, in ...
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Elektra, Duke of York's Theatre review - Brie Larson's London stage debut is angry but inert
We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the uptick, therefore, in Greek drama, which includes not one ...
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Elektra starring Brie Larson – review round-up
The Oscar-winning Hollywood star makes her UK debut in Daniel Fish's staging of Sophocles' play, but does the latest Greek ...
‘Elektra’ Theater Review: Brie Larson Makes West End Debut in Messy, Misguided Take on Sophocles
Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical 'Oklahoma!' rethink drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.
PATRICK MARMION reviews Elektra at the Duke of York's theatre: The REAL tragedy is this Hollywood star's assault on West End
Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...