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After Troy

Glyn Maxwell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Feb '11

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New play from critically acclaimed poet, described as “the best dramatic poet now at work…” by the Daily Telegraph

New play from critically acclaimed poet, described as “the best dramatic poet now at work…” by the Daily TelegraphTroy 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… 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.

"Glyn Maxwells drama does not so much conflate the two great tragedies of loss and revenge [Women of Troy and Hecuba but rather alights, magpie-like, on what is shiny in each to create a brand new play" Lyn Gardner, Guardian

"Glyn Maxwell’s drama does not so much conflate the two great tragedies of loss and revenge [Women of Troy and Hecuba but rather alights, magpie-like, on what is shiny in each to create a brand new play" –Lyn Gardner, Guardian

ISBN: 9781849430265

Dimensions: 210mm x 130mm x 5mm

Weight: 100g

92 pages