Nick Paynes urgent new version of Sophocles Electra is another in a long line of boundary breaking offerings. Payne [is] one of our brightest new playwrights Electra-fying"The Evening Standard Poised and punchyThe Arts Desk Paynes translation has a flinty seriousness A punchy account of a classic play.The Stage dark, bloody, anguished Paynes version, linguistically, is spare and simplified, with a graceful eloquence; quite stylised on the page, but completely natural in the mouths of the actors 4 starsExuent Magazine Nick Payne's new version [has] the feel of a contemporary gangster movie a tough modern version of the tragedy that has poetic moments and maintains pace throughoutBritish Theatre Guide
Nick Paynes urgent new version of Sophocles Electra is another in a long line of boundary breaking offerings. Payne [is] one of our brightest new playwrights Electra-fying"The Evening Standard Poised and punchyThe Arts Desk Paynes translation has a flinty seriousness A punchy account of a classic play.The Stage dark, bloody, anguished Paynes version, linguistically, is spare and simplified, with a graceful eloquence; quite stylised on the page, but completely natural in the mouths of the actors 4 starsExuent Magazine Nick Payne's new version [has] the feel of a contemporary gangster movie a tough modern version of the tragedy that has poetic moments and maintains pace throughoutBritish Theatre Guide
