Fiona Shaw: Playing Electra in Derry helped me see the power of tragedy
The recent death of my brother and the cycle of violence in Northern Ireland made performing Electra on tour an extraordinary experienceBy the late 1980s I had played a series of heroines at the RSC witty women on the brink of marriage, such as Portia, Beatrice and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. I associated acting with entertainment, with being able to turn a line on a sixpence and make people laugh. So when…