Methuen Drama, 2002

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...When Apollo was exiled for nine years from his Olympian home, he found shelter and hospitality at the palace of King Admetus. To pay him back, Apollo offers Admetus the chance to live beyond the day that fate has decided he will die...

Nick Hern Books, 2001

Drama Classics

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Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Euripides' Andromache is an Athenian tragedy dramatising Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione. It was probably written during the early years...

Nick Hern Books, 1998

Drama Classics

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Roles: Total (8), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Bacchae is one of the nineteen surviving plays by Euripides, a tragedy written during his final years in exile in Macedonia. It was first performed in 405 BC, a few months after his death. The play's action is based...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Classical Dramatists

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

...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...

Methuen Drama, 2004

Student Editions

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Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Elektra is a story of revenge, of children on their mother, and the grief and fury of a woman when her filial duties are split down the middle. When the victorious King Agamemnon returns from Troy, carting his new mistress...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Acts: 1, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (1)

...The first great war between the east and west is over. Hecuba, once queen of Troy, is widowed and enslaved by the conquering Greeks. When her captors demand that her daughter be sacrificed in honour of the great warrior Achilles, and she...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Seven years have passed since the end of the Trojan War and Menelaus, King of Sparta and husband to Helen, is making his slow and painful way home. When his ship is wrecked on the coast of Egypt he stumbles upon what seems to be his wife...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (10), Female (1), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...While the great Greek hero Herakles was in the underworld completing his divinely ordained labours, above ground, a rival king, Lykos, was busy plotting to murder Herakles' living mortal family. Instead, Herakles' returns just in time...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (10), Female (2), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Herakles' Children is described in the introduction by translator Kenneth McLeish as dramatising 'a section of the Herakles myth which seems to explain how initial enmity between Athens and the Pelopennesian state of Argos was, at some...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Euripides' play tells the story of Phaidra's love for her step-son Hippolytos, Theseus's illegitimate son, a man so devoted to his chastity and the cult of Artemis that he spurns the goddess of love Aphrodite. To return the insult, she...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Furious that Prince Hippolytus will not worship her, Aphrodite, goddess of love, seeks revenge. Infecting Hippolytus' stepmother, Phaedra, with an overpowering desire for him, Aphrodite's retribution will sweep both prince and queen...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Iphigeneia, sister of the troubled Orestes, was the daughter of Agamemnon. No ideal father, Agamemnon had aimed to sacrifice Iphigeneia before the Trojan War in the hopes of guaranteeing victory, a sacrifice that was only undone...

Oberon Books, 2017

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Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Two versions of Euripides' masterpiece in a new verse translation by Andy Hinds, with Martine Cuypers. The first version of Iphigenia in Aulis in this volume is a translation of the complete text as it has come down to us via...

Nick Hern Books, 2000

NHB Classic Plays

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Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead’s Medea brings a contemporary Scottish flavour to Euripides' story of the abandoned wife who murders her own children in revenge on her husband. It was commissioned and first performed by Theatre Babel at The Old Fruitmarket...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash. Her husband's gone and her future...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...'Orestes is a vicious play, filled with vicious characters, interested almost exclusively in themselves. Helen is shallow, Menelaos a backslider, Pylades, who does no more than haunt the fringes of most versions of the story, took a full...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In the dark of night, intrigues and treachery flourish beneath the walls of the besieged Troy. A chorus of sentries stands guard while spies and heroes scheme to turn the tides of war in their favour. In Rhesos, Euripides portrays...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...The haunting spectre of unburied corpses begins the action of Euripides' Suppliants. Aithra, mother of the king of Athens, Theseus, pleads with her son to exhort Thebes to release the bodies of the sons of Athens killed in Thebes, hired...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies – savage, comic and intensely lyrical – The Bacchae powerfully dramatises the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. The magnetic young Dionysus – icon, hedonist...