Tony Harrison Plays 6 - Hecuba; Fram; Iphigenia in Crimea Harrison TonyPaperback

Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. "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. 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.

His couplets are a feast for rhyme junkies." --Financial Times "As visually