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Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an award-winning actor and playwright and Professor of Theatre Practice at Monash University. She is currently playing Titus Andronicus in Bell Shakespeare's production at the Sydney Opera House.

Epiphany: 'Becoming Electra' by Jane Montgomery Griffiths

September 2019, no. 414 28 August 2019
As a teenager, I was a Greek tragedy tragic. While my friends had crushes on George Michael and Boy George (in retrospect, not the most promis­ing objects of desire), I was crushing on Sophocles. It was 1983: shaggy perms, rolled-down leg warmers, cheap syn­thetic leggings, winklepickers, and a school Portakabin that reeked of fumes from the paraffin heater. It was a miserable Tuesday in J ... (read more)