Euripides

Broschiertes Buch

Medea (National Theatre of Scotland Version)

Beschreibung

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Autor

Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. Her original stage plays include Thon Man Molière, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Blood and Ice, Good Things and Perfect Days. Her many stage adaptations include Dracula, Molière's Tartuffe, Miseryguts (based on Le Misanthrope) and Educating Agnes (based on L'École des Femmes); as well as versions of Medea by Euripides (for which she won the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2001), and Thebans (adapted mainly from Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone). Her collections of poetry include Dreaming Frankenstein, The Colour of Black & White, A Choosing (Selected Poems), Fugitive Colours and True Confessions, a collection of monologues and theatre lyrics. She served a five-year term as Scotland's Makar, or National Poet, from 2011 till 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2015. She won the Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

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Produktdetails

• NHB Classic Plays
• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• National Theatre of Scotland version
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 124mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 84g
• ISBN-13: 9781839041150
• ISBN-10: 1839041153
• Artikelnr.: 64360783