Tantalus by John Barton
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.-
Dennis Kelly: Plays One
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Like a Virgin
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Midsummer Mischief
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Dennis Kelly: Plays Two
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Howard Barker: Plays Two
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Dust & A First World Problem
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Barker: Plays One
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Jen Silverman: Three Plays
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Abi Morgan: Two Plays
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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays
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Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays
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Up On Roof
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Gary Owen: Collected Plays
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Ostrovsky: Four Plays
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Maxwell: Plays for Young People
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Plays for Young People
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Fosse: Plays One
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de Wet: Plays One
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Oliver Lansley: Les Enfants Terribles; Collected Plays
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Nassim Soleimanpour: Two Plays
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Oscar Wilde: Three Plays for Children
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My White Best Friend
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Political Plays
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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays
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The Holocaust Trilogy
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Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One
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Gail Louw: Plays Two
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Agota Kristof: Collected Plays
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Carl Grose: Plays One
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J.B. Priestley: Plays Three
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Oladipo Agboluaje: Plays One
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Richard Bean: Plays Four
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Bhatti: Plays One
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Three Farces and a Comedy
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Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors
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Two Plays for Young People
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Theatre Cafe: Plays One
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Dea Loher: Three Plays
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John Logan: Plays One
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Gail Louw: Collected Plays
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Richard Bean: Plays Five
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).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781783190287 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783190280 |
| Title | Tantalus |
| Author | John Barton |
| Series | Oberon Modern Playwrights |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2014-02-20 |
| Number of pages | 420 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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