Cruel and Tender

Archive Listings for Cruel and Tender

Walkabout Season - T374791931 Producer Young Vic. Producer Wiener Festwochen. Producer Chichester Festival Theatre. n co-production with the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen). Director Luc Bondy. Design Richard Peduzzi. Lighting Dominique Bruquiere. Sound Paul Arditti. Performer Kerry Fox (Amelia). Performer Joe Dixon (The General). Performer Georgina Ackerman (Laela). Performer Jessica Claire (Nicola). Performer Lourdes Faberes (Cathy). Performer Toby Fisher (James). Performer Michael Gould (Jonathan). Performer Nicola Redmond (Rachel). Performer David Sibley (Richard). Performer Aleksandar Mikic.
4 Aug 04 to 4 Sep 04	Minerva Theatre, Chichester :: V1310317653 listing details L01136039565
17 Jun 04 to 10 Jul 04	The Young Vic, Inner London :: V245 listing details L02053394105
4 May 04 to 15 May 04	The Young Vic, Inner London :: V245 listing details L1932546885

Details

Play :: Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Amelia can't sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He's a great general and this seems to be a decisive victory. But as the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold on to his love. Martin Crimp's new play takes Sophocles' ancient story of marriage and violence - Trachiniae - and propels it into a modern world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism.

Author

Martin Crimp (after Sophocles' Women of Trahcis)