After Troy

£11.69

After Troy

Plays, playscripts

Author: Glyn Maxwell

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Collection: Oberon Modern Plays

Language: English

Published by: Oberon Books

Published on: 21st June 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 96 pages

ISBN: 9781849433181


Synopsis

Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief… Four exhausted soldiers who hate each other’s guts… A King who falls for a girl so mad she can see the audience… A teenage princess dreaming of the Underworld… And a lonely man of conscience trying to get it all down on paper…

About the Play

Award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell rips up two Greek tragedies and makes a modern play from the fragments. A witty and passionate retelling of Euripides’ Women Of Troy and Hecuba, After Troy exposes the cruelties of war both then and now.

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