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'Electra'
Written by Nick Payne
Directed by Elizabeth Swanson
Assistant directed by Jan Schneider
Designed by Áine O'Hara
Composed and musical-directed by Kim V Porcelli
Produced by the Lir Theatre, August 2014

The score featured seven discrete pieces of music, all of which were performed a cappella by a cast of five adults and two children. Several of the pieces utilised a single drum.

Singers/cast: Danielle Galligan (main soloist), Katie Honan, Úna Kavanagh, Gerard Lee, Robert Thompson, Ava and Ben

I love the audio recording of this song. You can hear Danielle (Electra's sister Chrysothemis) moving around the room: through the audience, who were seated quite organically on Áine's set on three sides, and circling the other members of their family.
The ‘a heavy sorrow’ line was not repeated in Payne's original block of text. I decided to loop the line and weave it through the rest of the text, to emotionally convey the obsessive yet despairing turning-over-and-over of thoughts in Electra’s mind. To me, the beauty of the sung line reflects the deep sadness E is feeling, while the spoken lines feel like Electra’s resolve hardening. --Kim

lyrics

(original text by Nick Payne):

If we understand correctly,
your mother knows her fate.

Lacking in wise judgment,
justice predicts her outcome.

Her child is to return
in no short space of time.

A polluted marriage,
an outraged bed.

A heavy sorrow,
fallen asleep,
plunged into the sea.

Confidence in mind,
a dream that
breathes sweetly.

Following fearful nights,
morning is due.

Torment and trouble
depart now from this house.

credits

from from 'Electra' (by Nick Payne) (2014), released August 1, 2014
Photograph: Instagram snapshot (by Kim) of part of the set, designed by Áine O'Hara

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Kim V Porcelli Dublin, Ireland

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