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Măniuţiu's Electra is a performance of the eternal, yet all present tragic, always willing to take the shape of the day, but preserving its perpetually essence, the inexorable destiny. The meeting between these two great texts of Greek tragedy – the founding texts of the great European cultural myths – and the traditional music performed live by the group from Maramureş (Northern region of Romania) brings this extraordinary mythology into the present, causing the birth of a space of archaic confluences.

Electra and Orestes are the tool of destiny incarnated by the closed community (Electra is the axe, which the courtiers painted in blood on her back) and its members ensure it’s fulfilment.

It’s the sign of the tragic descending from the palace to the edge of the world, the sign of the tragic conserving itself from the hard core of social life. It's a ghetto in the world today who has invented for itself ancestral operating mechanisms, reconstructed by Măniuţiu with mirror-clarity in which reverberate the instruments and voices of the Iza group.

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Decor: Cristian Rusu, Mihai Măniuțiu
Costumes: Cristian Rusu
Assistant director/ prompter: Sanda Anastasof
Technical direction: Ștefan Bucșa
Lights: Mihai Părău
Sound: Bogdan Ropcean
Props: Nicolae Dogaru
Booths: Elena Hărsan
Marketing coordinator: Stefania Dogariu

Cast:
Electra – Mariana Mihu-Plier / Gabriela Pîrlițeanu
Clitemnestra – Diana Văcaru-Lazar
Oreste - Andrei Gîlcescu
Pilade – Ștefan Tunsoiu
The Old Man – Marian Râlea / Pali Vecsei
Crisotemis - Antonia Dobocan
Egist– David Cristian
Corifeul – Adrian Matioc
Choir: Cristina Stoleriu, Veronica Arizancu, Arina Ioana Trif, Viorel Rață, Mihai Coman, Eduard Pătrașcu, Alexandru Malaicu, Ali Deac, Liviu Vlad, Vlad Robaş, Horia Fedorca
Grupul IZA  din Maramureș - Ioan Pop, Anuța Pop, Ioachim Făt, Voichiţa Tepei, Gheorghe Kohut

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Performance in Romanian, with translation into English