"Nick Payne's urgent new version of Sophocles "Electra" is another in a long line of boundary breaking offerings.... Payne [is] one of our brightest new playwrights... Electra-fying"--"The Evening Standard"
"Poised and punchy"--"The Arts Desk"
"Payne's translation has a flinty seriousness... A punchy account of a classic play."--"The Stage"
"dark, bloody, anguished... Payne's version, linguistically, is spare and simplified, with a graceful eloquence; quite stylised on the page, but completely natural in the mouths of the actors..." 4 stars--"Exuent Magazine"
"Nick Payne's new version [has] the feel of a contemporary gangster movie... a tough modern version of the tragedy that has poetic moments and maintains pace throughout"--"British Theatre Guide"
