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Euripides’ Alcestis - A new version
“Alcestis” is the tale of a queen sacrificing herself so her husband may live. Ted Hughes’ classical translation was his final work, completed just before he died. As with his other works,…
Blood Wedding
Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family.…
The Oresteia
Ted Hughes’ translation of “The Oresteia” is written in his most pared-down and powerfully-driven verse, at once equal to Aeschylus’s tragic vision and speaking directly to modern…
Collected Plays for Children
This volume contains six plays suitable for performance by children. Four were published under the title The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays, and the other two are Orpheus, previously only published…
Phedre
A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying…
Tales from Ovid - Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses
An adaptation of Ted Hughes's "Tales from Ovid" for the stage. Tim Supple is Artistic Director of the Young Vic. He has already adapted Grimm and Rushdie, and worked with Hughes on "Spring Awakening" and…
