ELECTRA
DIRECTED BY ADONIS FILIPI
MOVEMENT SCENIC RISIMA RISIMKIN
Set designer Jiauhai Liu , Cotumes designer Jiaqi Tan,
Light designer Weiwei Tian , Music Luan Jia, Sound designer Xiao Ma
CAST
ELECTRA – HYAYING SUN
ORESTES – ZHANG LIN
CLITEMNESTRA – XUAN DONG
CHRISOTHEMAS – BO ZHANG OLD SLAVE & AEGISTHUS – XI LIAN
BING REN – NARATOR XIADONG XU – PYLADES
CHOIR
YAU CUI, JI XUA, JINGROU TIAN, SHUO ZHANG, ZOUGFANGYUAN XU, JIYAN JIANG, JAUGYANG, XIAOUI JUAN.
We saw an amazing performance of Shandong Drama Association. Electra” a masterpiece of ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, full of sins, killings, censure, vengeance and other pain and challenges in ethics, ethics, society, and aesthetics, have important values and are one of the important references for the consideration of the development and artistic value of contemporary drama creation.The creative themes, pursuits, experience, and training methods of many theatrical artists in the world are all worthy of the understanding of Chinese theatrical people.
The new highlights of the repertory, the actor started playing from the auditorium to restore at the appearance of the ancient Greek drama; the creative team re-arranged the play; eight dancers were set up at the scene and served as choruses.
On the evening of June 14, a new modern version of the ancient Greek tragedy “Electra”, directed by special director of the show Adonis Filipi, was premiered in Jinan, China. The performance organized and arranged by the Shandong Theatre.
Using the rhythm to express the feeling of the characters the atmosphere of the scene, was rendered with the vocal chorus; for the first time, the narrator’s role was set to narrow the distance between the actors and the audience. The re-interpretation of the “Electra” based on the story itself, made many innovations in characters, appearances, costumes, and choreography, and created a Chinese version of the “Electra.”
