"Elektra" Takes Canadian Audience By Storm

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Thomas Moschopoulos, a Greek stage director already familiar to the local audience, created a sensation at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. His production of Sophocles’ Elektra, starring some of Canada’s greatest stage actors, and featuring Kornilios Selamsis’ music and Ellie Papageorgakopoulou’s scenery, has received raving reviews from some of the country’s most prestigious media, such as the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.

Moschopoulos’ direction was based on what he called, in his own note, "the three essential elements of Greek tragedy: song, rhythmical recitation and rhetorical debate." All critics were particularly impressed with his functional use of music "connecting viewer with character by using the rhythm of a beating heart".

The show has been described as the "cream of the crop" of the festival, and Moschopoulos as a gifted director. The play continues through September 29 at the Tom Patterson Theatre. The director, who had also excited Italian audience with his collaboration with the Teatro Lirico, is currently in Greece preparing three new productions, while already discussing a new production at the Stratford Festival and another opera in Italy for next year. (Greek news agenda)