Synopsis:
The first act concerns Electra's successful strategy to get revenge for her father Agamemnon's death, by having Orestes kill both their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Then the Furies arrive, and it is as if time sucks brother and sister backwards into a nightmare replaying and overlapping of past events. Their father sacrifices their sister Iphigenia, mother slays father and his mistress, and Orestes kills his mother again.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
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