Performance

Venue	Swan Theatre
Town	Stratford-Upon-Avon
County	Warwickshire
From	17th September 2015
Opened	24th September 2015
To	17th October 2015
When	19:30. Sep 24 19:00. Sep 26, 30, Oct 3, 7, 10, 14, 17 Mats 13:30
What is currently on at Swan Theatre (V136)

Hecuba

T01927392887
The Greeks have entered Troy in the Wooden Horse, razed the city to the ground and killed most of Queen Hecuba's family. Now she mourns, wondering what catastrophe will strike her next. So she sends her son Polydorus into the safekeeping of the King of Thrace and guards her daughter Polyxena tightly. But then the ghost of the Greek hero Achilles rises from the grave and demands the death of Polyxena as a sacrifice to the Gods so that the winds will die down and allow the Greek fleet to return home. The great Greek tragedian Euripides wrote Hecuba in Athens in about 424BC at a point where he was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the futility of war. It remains one of the greatest anti-war plays of all time, a thrilling and emotional cry of fury against treachery and greed.

Author

Euripides

Archive :: production:T01927392887, play:S2104604935, venue:V136

Special Performances

15 Oct 15 Captioned
17 Oct 15 Audio Described

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Producer	Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Adapted by	Marina Carr
Director	Erica Whyman
Design	Soutra Gilmour
Lighting	Charles Balfour
Music	Isobel Waller-Bridge
Sound	Andrew Franks
Director	Ayse Tashkiran (movement director)
Performer	Derbhle Crotty (Hecuba)
Performer	Ray Fearon (Agamemnon)
Performer	Edmund Kingsley (Polymestor)
Performer	Nadia Albina (Cassandra)
Performer	David Ajao (Nepotolemus)
Performer	Amy McAllister (Polyxena)
Performer	Chu Omambala (Odysseus)
Performer	Lara Stubbs (Hecuba's Woman)

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