Tony Harrison Plays 6

<b>Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. </b>The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram which opened at the National Theatre in 2008; and Iphigenia in Crimea after Euripides which premiered on BBC Radio 3 to mark Tony Harrison's eightieth birthday in 2016. Tony is that incredibly rare beast: as great a playwright as he is a poet. --Lee Hall I am convinced that Tony Harrison is one of the truly great poets writing in English today. --Melvyn Bragg Hecuba Harrison's urgent translation never lets us forget the aching topicality of Euripides' study of the powerful and the powerless.--Guardian Fram Harrison brings gloriously rich life to the stage by turns funny and rending. His couplets are a feast for rhyme junkies. --Financial Times As visually resplendent a piece of theatre as you will see all year. The words more than hold their own however expressing in rhymes to be relished that poetry might yet if not lead us out of the darkness at least make us feel ashamed we're still stuck in it.--Sunday Times Iphigenia in Crimea Set in Sebastapol 1854 inthe midst of the Crimean war a lieutenant decides to stage an all-male production of Euripides's tragedy. After initial raucous incredulity the atmosphere changes as the men commit themselves to the drama until as it draws to a close ancient and modern worlds collide and warfare resumes in earnest.