The Travelling Players
Top 10 Billed Cast
Elektra
Aegisthus
Clytemnestra (Elektra's mother)
Pylades
Agamemnon (Electra's father)
Old Woman
Accordionist
Chrysothemis (Elektra's sister)
Poet
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