The Suppliant Women -  Aeschylus

The Suppliant Women

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
64 Seiten
2017 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34161-0 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
If we help, we invite trouble. If we don't, we bring shame.

Fifty women board a boat in North Africa. They flee across the Mediterranean, leaving everything behind. They are escaping forced marriage in their home and seeking asylum in Greece.

Written 2,500 years ago, The Suppliant Women is one of the world's oldest plays. It's about the plight of refugees, about moral and human rights, civil war, democracy and ultimately the triumph of love. It tells a story that echoes down the ages to find striking and poignant resonance today.

Featuring in performance a chorus of local women, this is part play, part ritual, part theatrical archaeology. It explores fundamental questions of humanity: who are we, where do we belong and, if all goes wrong, who will take us in?

Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women, in a version by David Greig, premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2016, in a production by ATC.

David Greig is a writer and theatre director. He was born in Edinburgh in 1969. His play Europe was performed at the Traverse Theatre in 1994. Since then, his plays, adaptations and musical scripts have been performed widely in the UK and around the world. In 1990 he co-founded Suspect Culture, who produced collaborative, experimental work until their funding was ended in 2010. In 2016 he became the Artistic Director of Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre. In 2023 he published his first novel, Columba's Bones.

Erscheinungsdatum
Mitarbeit Anpassung von: David Greig
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 125 x 198 mm
Gewicht 70 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10 0-571-34161-6 / 0571341616
ISBN-13 978-0-571-34161-0 / 9780571341610
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