Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O’Neill

It’s as if love drove me on to do everything I shouldn’t. I never should have brought you to this house… But I loved you too much. I wanted you every possible moment we could steal!

A passionate tornado of a play exploring the wildly destructive forces of jealousy and desire unleashed when Lavinia discovers that her mother, the intoxicating Christine Mannon, has dared to take a young lover.
In New England just after the Civil War, Ezra Mannon’s return from the field of battle sweeps an entire family into a violent spiral of revenge.

Helen Mirren plays Christine Mannon and Eve Best her daughter in O’Neill’s mighty epic, based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

Start time is 6.15pm for evening performances. There are two 15 minute intervals.

Mourning Becomes Electra finished on: 31 January 2004