Nick Hern Books
Thyestes
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback, 58 pages ISBN: 9781854596505Publication Date:
29 Jun 2001Size: 198mm x 130mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
Ebook, 58 pages ISBN: 9781780013626Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
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First Staged:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 1994

Thyestes

By Seneca Translated by Caryl Churchill

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A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists.

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.

Caryl Churchill's version of Seneca's play Thyestes was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in June 1994, in a production directed by James Macdonald.

Thyestes is also available in the collection Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

Press Quotes

'A bleakly eloquent new translation... leaves you deeply impressed'

Sunday Times

'It is a sign of Ms Churchill's success that, without rubbing in any parallels, her version constantly prompts thoughts... of the ethics of revenge, of the latest reports from Rwanda, of what has happened in its time on all five continents'

Sunday Telegraph

'The effect is cold-bloodedly illuminating'

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Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback,58 pages ISBN: 9781854596505Publication Date:
29 Jun 2001Size: 198mm x 130mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
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Ebook,58 pages ISBN: 9781780013626Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
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Also by Caryl Churchill:

A Number
Tickets are Now On Sale
Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Far Away
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Lovesick
Hotel
Hot Fudge
Three Short Plays
Love and Information
Air
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Icecream
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
What If If Only
Here We Go
War and Peace Gaza Piece
Seagulls
Caryl Churchill Plays: Four
A Dream Play
Blue Heart
The Judge's Wife
Pigs and Dogs
Escaped Alone
The Skriker
Three More Sleepless Nights
This is a Chair
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
Beautiful Eyes
Traps
A Mouthful of Birds
Bliss
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Seven Jewish Children
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Cloud Nine
Ding Dong the Wicked
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
Lives of the Great Poisoners
Abortive
Mad Forest
The After-Dinner Joke

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