Thyestes
Paperback, 58 pages ISBN: 9781854596505Publication Date:
29 Jun 2001
Size: 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%)
First Staged:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 1994

Thyestes

By Seneca Translated by Caryl Churchill

Paperback £9.99£7.99

Ebook £9.99£7.99

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'

Independent on Sunday
Paperback,58 pages ISBN: 9781854596505Publication Date:
29 Jun 2001
Size: 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%)

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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