The 35-year-old is playing the mythological quality of Elektra successful an upcoming signifier accumulation of the aforesaid sanction for a constricted tally successful Brighton, England’s Theatre Royal Jan. 13 done 18 and London’s Duke of York Theater, Jan. 24 done April 12.
The accumulation volition beryllium based disconnected classicist Anne Carson's translation of the Sophocles-written Greek tragedy. The synopsis for the play reads: “Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief; a request for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her agelong mislaid member Orestes astatine past returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying decision but astatine what cost?”
Brie volition beryllium joined connected signifier by actors Stockard Channing, Marième Diouf, Greg Hicks, and Patrick Vaill successful the play directed by Daniel Fish.
While Brie is possibly champion known for her onscreen roles—including Captain Marvel and Lessons successful Chemistry—she got her commencement successful the theater.
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One of Brie’s erstwhile signifier credits includes playing Emily successful Our Town astatine the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival successful 2010. And portion Brie has not taken to the signifier often since she started her nonrecreational acting vocation connected the United States of Tara successful 2009, she primitively trained astatine the American Conservatory Theater successful San Francisco, California, opening her studies astatine the property of six, which made her the youngest subordinate successful the theater’s history.
Noting successful a property merchandise that she “couldn’t beryllium much excited” to beryllium starring successful Elektra, Larson added, “Storytelling has ever been the mode I signifier life, feelings and experiences. I look guardant to sharing abstraction with the fantastic West End assemblage portion we research this timeless story.”
This caller crook successful the theater—where she tin acquisition the assemblage reactions successful existent clip each day—is apt to travel arsenic a invited alteration for the actress, who has antecedently spoken to however the agelong hold betwixt filming thing similar a Marvel movie and audiences really being capable to watch. It’s wherefore she’s truthful grateful for in-person instrumentality events that let her to interact with viewers.
"It's truly encouraging due to the fact that you're conscionable doing thing successful concealed unsocial for truthful long," Brie told E! News astatine Disney's D23 Expo successful 2022. "It's bully to person these reminders that these are truly important stories that mean thing to radical and tin alteration the people of someone's life."
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