“I came to think of translating as a room,” Anne Carson has said, “where one gropes for the light switch.” Recently awarded the Nobel Laureate in Literature 2026, the classicist has brought an experimental, erudite, and modern approach to ancient prose and plays, taking on the work of Sappho, Euripides, and Sophocles. The director Daniel Fish now brings Carson’s translation of the 2,500-year-old play Elektra to the stage. Tina Benko stars as the title character, a young woman haunted by the murder of her father, Agamemnon. She joins forces with her brother, Orestes, to enact revenge against their mother, Clytemnestra. This is the first major New York revival of the Sophocles play in three decades. —Maggie Turner