Tantalus John Barton

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Ten new Greek plays from visionary director John Barton, this is the revised second edition of one of contemporary theatre's most ambitious and daring undertakings, a staggering new version of the Great Epic Cycle, a literary form of an oral tradition developed during the Greek Dark Ages, and the aftermath of the Homeric War.

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Tantalus: The Greek Epic Cycle Retold in Ten Plays by John Barton

When theatre began, two and a half millenia ago in ancient Greece, it drew from a well of even older myths, the Great Epic Cycle. These stories and characters from the beginning of our imagination inspired John Barton to write the great cycle of human life, Tantalus, an epic theatre myth for the new millenium, and one of the most ambitious theatrical ventures of our times produced by the RSC and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, directed by Sir Peter and Edward Hall. (UK tour Jan-May 2001)

About John Barton

John Barton is a writer and director who, with Peter Hall, co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, where Barton was an active director for over forty years. His landmark productions included Twelfth Night with Judi Dench as Viola, and a sequence of Shakespeare's History Plays (with Peter Hall). A prolific writer and adaptor, he has spent over 30 years developing Tantalus, which is an extension of his earlier work, The Greeks (1980). He has adapted some twenty other texts for the theatre and has also had published The First Stage, The Hollow Crown, The Wars of the Roses, The Greeks, La Ronde, The Rover and the legendary Playing Shakespeare (also a television series).

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NLS9781783190287

ISBN 13

9781783190287

ISBN 10

1783190280

Title

Tantalus: The Greek Epic Cycle Retold in Ten Plays by John Barton

Author

John Barton

Series

Oberon Modern Playwrights

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

2014-02-20

Number of pages

420

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N/A

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