Gwenaël Morin concludes long-term project with Civil War-era Electra at Avignon Festival

Director Gwenaël Morin is presenting the fourth and final installment of his long-term theatrical project at the Festival d'Avignon. The production, titled "Le Deuil sied à Electre" (Mourning Becomes Electra), adapts a reinterpretation of the Electra myth set during the American Civil War. Morin's staging is described as organic and convivial, continuing his distinctive approach to theater. The work is based on Eugene O'Neill's 1931 play, which itself reimagines Aeschylus's Oresteia in a 19th-century New England setting. This marks the culmination of a multi-year endeavor by Morin to explore the Atrides cycle through contemporary lenses. The Festival d'Avignon, one of the world's most prestigious performing arts festivals, runs annually in July in Avignon, France.