The play will be directed by Aaron Cabell from a new translation by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford, and features an original musical score and choreography.

It stars Heather Rae Miller in the title role, Lorin Swenson as Orestes, Kristin Tripp as Clytemnestra and Brian Marsch and Peter Chaskes as Castor and Polydeuces, respectively. The chorus leader is played by Gretchen Meyerhoefer.

Cabell is a lecturer in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance and has performed as an actor for some of the most prestigious regional theaters in the United States, including Steppenwolf, Wisdom Bridge and Victory Gardens in Chicago; Washington's Studio Theatre, and the Arden and Festival Theatre for New Plays in Philadelphia. He also is a company member of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival.

His production blends theater, original music in a contemporary vein composed and performed by Robert Chumbley, director of the Center for the Arts, and dance choreographed by Tressa Gorman-Crehan, a lecturer in the UB theatre and dance faculty.

Costume design is by Catherine F. Norgren, associate professor of theater at UB and head of design and production for the Department of Theatre and Dance. Set design is by Carol Beckley, resident scene designer and assistant professor of stage design at Buffalo State College.

The play is a re-telling of the legend of Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of the Greek Bronze-Age city-state of Mycenae. Electra saved the life of her younger brother Orestes by sending him away when their father was killed by their mother, Clytemnestra, in revenge for his blood sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, at the outset of the Trojan War.

When Orestes returned to Mycenae, Electra helped him kill Clytemnestra and her lover. Electra then married Orestes' friend Pylades.

This is a story of conflicting duties to family and the larger society; revenge, justice, heroism and cowardice. It has been told by Greek playwrights Sophocles and Aeschylus, as well as by Euripides, although each varies the theme in detail. Many other versions exist as well, including the 1931 play by Eugene O'Neill, who moved the family Agamemnon to post-civil war America in "Mourning Becomes Electra."

Besides the principal players, the cast of this production features Christopher Roberts, J. Jeffrey Wilson, Stephanie Bakowski, Rebecca Ruest, Kristin Renee Brandt, Susanna Maritime, Elizabeth Poirier, Marianna Rodriguez, Rebecca Simon, Anju Visweswaraiah, Robert S. Manning, Jason Hare, Brian Dolan, Scot Hartman, Owen Muirhead and Colin Rust.

The technical crew includes stage manager Alyssa Seiden, her assistant, Jacob Mirer, light board operator, Jill McGuinness and wardrobe crew, Coleen Ormand and Tim Van Patten.