The proposal is based on Sophocles's play and directed by Fernanda Orazi. The tickets are sold out.

 

This weekend, La Salita is staging Electra by Sophocles, directed by Fernanda Orazi. The theatrical proposal received the Max Award 2024 for Best Newcomer Production and Best Version and the Godot Award 2023 for Best Conduction. The performances are programmed for Saturday (8th) at 7.30 p.m. and Sunday (9th) at noon in the Auditorio de Tenerife. The tickets for both performances are sold out.

Produced by Pílades Teatro, it was premièred in the Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid n the year 2023. This is a version of the Greek classic by Sophocles based on the translation by José Velasco y García and signed by Orazi. The protagonists of the proposal are Carmen Angulo, Javier Ballesteros, Leticia Etala and Juan Paños.

The director explains that this Electra raises the stakes of the theatre "as far as necessary". “We have embraced this version of Electra and the adventure of engaging with a Greek tragedy that represents something that seems unperformable for us as dramatic beings.

In words of Orazi, "I like to think that it is more like going to the Greco-Latin classics or letting them come to us than going back because that would mean that we have already been there and therefore that we already know them, which is not the case with us". She adds “perhaps what makes a classic a classic is the ability to offer an experience that is always fresh and other to the extent that we don't interact with it as something we already know”.

Since 1995, she has worked in and researched performing procedures in educational settings, laboratories, and creative processes. She has with Pablo Messiez on ten works over the last eleven years, the last of which was Los Gestos, which premiered at the National Drama Centre (CDN) and subsequently toured. Likewise, she has worked as an actress for works directed by Pablo Remón. The last was Doña Rosita Anotada.

As a director, she debuted her first work in Buenos Aires in 2023, Teo con Julia. In 2010, at the Madrid Autumn Festival, she premiered Susana en el agua y con la boca abierta. In 2012, she released El Rumor Analógico de las Cosas in Cuarta Pared. In 2013, she released El Futuro at the Teatro del Barrio in Madrid. Later, in 2017, she released Encarnación at El Umbral de Primavera in Madrid.

In 2023, she won the Godot Award for Best Directing for this version of Electra, and the show was also a finalist at the same edition of the Godot Awards in the Best Show and Best Cast categories. In 2024, she won two Max Awards for this work: Best New Show and Best Version or Adaptation of a Theatrical Work. 

La Salita's programme continues on the 22nd and 23rd of February with Lady Anne, based on Richard III by Shakespeare and performed by Elisabet Gelabert and Inma Nieto. The latter also wrote and directed the text. The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are discounts for those under 30, subscription holders of Ópera de Tenerife and wheelchair users.