Rami Malek kicked off Greek week with an Oedipus that was a bit odd, but as another Oscar winner takes on another Sophoclean parent-killer - Captain Marvel star Brie Larson playing Elektra - things are getting really weird.
Elektra at the Duke of York review: Brie Larson's riot grrrl Greek is an exercise in alienation What the hell just happened?.
The perpetuity of violence, too: Agamemnon killed Iphigenia, Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon, now Orestes has to kill Clytemnestra.
A nozzle issues pressure jets of black liquid onto the gold robes of the cast, while Larson is a furious teenager in a Bikini Kill t-shirt, her clothing marking her out as different from everyone around her.
Larson tackles Anne Carson’s translation - which is very faithful and sometimes quite beautiful, but mostly an impenetrable slog - in an extraordinary way, bringing layers of bitterness, resentment and desperation to the lines.
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