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Nick Hern Books, London

1998

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Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Kenneth McLeish

Synopsis: First performed in Athens in 405 BC this bloodthirsty story still has a timeless theatrical power. The half-god Dionysos returns to Thebes intent on punishing his family for rejecting him. Dionysos persuades his cousin Pentheus, King of Thebes, to disguise himself as a woman so he can witness the Theban women celebrating the wild Bacchanalian rites. Pentheus's mother mistakes Pentheus for a lion and tears him to pieces. But that only marks the beginning of Dionysos's revenge.

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

2004

Stanhope Productions

Methuen Drama, London >>>

2004

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Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. Adapted by Frederic and Stephen Raphael

Synopsis: A charismatic leader is locked into a love-hate relationship with his fiscally prudent chancellor; but, having rashly promoted him, he encourages his loyal entourage to destroy him. Not for nothing does the mind turn to diverting thoughts of Blair and Brown while watching Jean Anouilh's intellectually vacuous piece of boulevard history. Anouilh's play is based on one, endlessly repeated idea: that Henry II was plagued by a homoerotic, stonily unrequited passion for his old hawking, horsing and whoring chum, Thomas Becket. Having pinched his mistress and rashly elevated him first to the chancellorship and then to Canterbury, Henry is confronted by the awkward fact that Becket puts the honour of God before that of his king. So, in a rage born of thwarted love, Henry licenses his barons to kill the unyielding Becket. -Michael Billington, Guardian

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in "Eight Plays Book 2" Cassell, London

1965

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Abbey Theatre, Abbey Stage, Dublin >>>

2000

Abbey Theatre

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

1994

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Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides; Written by Frederick Raphael and Kenneth McLeish

Synopsis: The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children to revenge her husband's infidelity

BBC TV

1979

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in "The Serpent Sun" Cambridge University Press

1979

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Notes: written with Kenneth McLeish

Synopsis: a trilogy of plays concerning the bloody domestic aftermath of the Trojan War