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Antigone

Sophocles

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Don Taylor

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National Theatre

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...Age recommendation: 15+ (some strong, bloody images) This archive recording was captured on 4th July, 2012. In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring...

Theban Plays: Oedipus At Colonus

Sophocles

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BBC Video

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...Sophocles' Theban plays – Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonos and Antigone – stand at the fountainhead of world drama; they tell the story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike...

Theban Plays: Oedipus The King

Sophocles

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BBC Video

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...This Greek tragedy tells the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes and husband of Jocasta. When the discovery is made that he is the son of the same Jocasta and of the previous king Laius (whom he has unwittingly murdered), Oedipus blinds...

Cyclops

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Euripides

~playauthor~Written by~ Euripides

Methuen Drama, 2002

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (5), Female (0), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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...Silenus, father of the Satyrs, has been trapped on Sicily, held prisoner by the Cyclops son of Poseidon, Polyphemus. Silenus is despondent: his captive fate was found when seeking to rescue another god, Dionysus. Instead, it is Silenus...

The Family Saga

J. Michael Walton

J. Michael Walton has published and edited seven books on classical theatre history and has nine translations of Euripides plays in print, many on the Methuen Drama list. He is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull where he taught from 1965 to 2002. While there he directed numerous plays and taught courses in Classical Theatre, Masks and Puppets, Russian Theatre, American Theatre, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Theatre, Directing and Acting. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Euripides our Contemporary

Methuen Drama, 2009

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...Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis Phoenician Women is Euripides’ Oedipus play, seldom read and not often seen, though a production was directed by Katie Mitchell for the Royal Shakespeare Company...

Imperium: The Cicero Plays  

Written by

Robert Harris

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Mike Poulton

Adapted by

Mike Poulton

~playauthor~Written by~ Robert Harris , Mike Poulton ~playauthor~Adapted by~ Mike Poulton

Nick Hern Books, 2017

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 71, Roles: Total (110), Female (21), Male (89), Unassigned (0)

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...Mike Poulton’s Imperium: The Cicero Plays is a cycle of six historical plays about the Roman statesman and orator, Cicero, in the first century BC, adapted from Robert Harris's trilogy of novels, Imperium (2006), Lustrum (2009) and Dictator...

The Haunted House

Written by

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Kenneth McLeish

Translated by

Kenneth McLeish

~playauthor~Written by~ Titus Maccius Plautus , Kenneth McLeish ~playauthor~Translated by~ Kenneth McLeish

Methuen Drama, 2003

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (13), Female (1), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

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...Philolaches is a good for nothing so-and-so: he seems to live purely to spend his father's cash, or, when he can't get it, to borrow against it. Everything he loves is paid for by someone else's efforts, including the lady of his dreams...

Immortals and Mortals

J. Michael Walton

J. Michael Walton has published and edited seven books on classical theatre history and has nine translations of Euripides plays in print, many on the Methuen Drama list. He is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull where he taught from 1965 to 2002. While there he directed numerous plays and taught courses in Classical Theatre, Masks and Puppets, Russian Theatre, American Theatre, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Theatre, Directing and Acting. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Euripides our Contemporary

Methuen Drama, 2009

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...Alcestis, Iphigeneia Among the Taurians, Electra, Rhesus, Ion, Hippolytus, Bacchae Only four of Euripides’ nineteen plays (Children of Heracles, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Medea and Phoenician Women) do not include an immortal...

Theban Plays: Antigone

Sophocles

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BBC Video

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...The story of one sister’s loyalty to both her brothers, regardless of their acts or opposing political beliefs, Antigone is one of the most consistently popular plays in the history of drama. This translation, by Don Taylor...

Revenge

J. Michael Walton

J. Michael Walton has published and edited seven books on classical theatre history and has nine translations of Euripides plays in print, many on the Methuen Drama list. He is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull where he taught from 1965 to 2002. While there he directed numerous plays and taught courses in Classical Theatre, Masks and Puppets, Russian Theatre, American Theatre, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Theatre, Directing and Acting. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Euripides our Contemporary

Methuen Drama, 2009

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...Electra, Hecuba, Children of Heracles, Andromache, Medea (Bacchae, ll. 878–80) Chorus. What gift of the gods could be finer for man Than to raise up his hand o’er the head...