Mourning Becomes Electra

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Play from 17 November 2003 to 31 January 2004

Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre) South Bank, London

Play by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Howard Davies.

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 Mourning Becomes Electra, based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia.