The Getty Villa’s annual outdoor productions of the classics at the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater are now in their fifth season. In September, the Getty will present a new production of Sophocles’ “Elektra,” directed by Carey Perloff, the artistic director of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

This version of “Elektra” features the debut of a translation by the Olivier Award-winning British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, whose plays include “Our Country’s Good” and “The Love of the Nightingale.”

The Getty said Wertenbaker’s translation was specially commissioned for this production and that it preserves the formal structure of the ancient language while at the same time creating a more contemporary feel.

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