There are some really great lines in John Ward’s new version of Electra. ‘No one is innocent’, ‘the cycle must be broken’, ‘God is in the deed’. They throb with a sense of ‘the tragic’, that artistic mode that has permeated cultural thought for centuries, and to which an entire term of study was devoted at the university I attended.
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Courtesy of Lidia Crisafulli.