| Description |
35 pages, 30 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Current theatre series |
|
Current theatre series.
|
| Summary |
Ancient Greece, the Kingdom of Pisa. King Pelops has declared his bastard child Chrysippus heir to the throne. His queen Hippodamia convinces Pelops' rightful heirs, her sons Atreus and Thyestes, to kill their half-brother. So begins the infamous story of a deposed king who eats his own children, after being served them in a feast by his brother. In this modern version, reimagined by four young writers, the boundaries of Seneca's play have been blown out to encompass the matrix of killings in the original myth. A series of moments between atrocities, Thyestes explores the constant that has underpinned human nature across the centuries: that man is brutal, capable of anything. And in the spaces between the banal and the ordinary, terrifying acts occur |
| Analysis |
Australian |
|
Australian drama (Australia) |
| Notes |
"First produced by The Hayloft Project at the Malthouse, Melbourne, as a Malthouse Theatre commission, on 16 September 2010." |
|
Winner, Green Room Award for Best Adaption |
| Subject |
Thyestes, King of Olympia and Mycenae (Mythological character) -- Drama.
|
|
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Thyestes.
|
|
Thyestes, King of Olympia and Mycenae (Mythological character) -- In literature
|
|
Brothers -- Drama.
|
|
Kings and rulers -- Drama.
|
|
Murder -- Drama.
|
|
Australian drama -- 21st century.
|
| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Drama.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115273
|
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
|
| Author |
Ryan, Chris, author
|
|
Stone, Simon, author
|
|
Winter, Mark, author
|
|
Theatre adaptation of (work) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Thyestes.
|
|
Belvoir (Theatre company)
|
| ISBN |
0868199273 (paperback) |
|
9780868199276 (paperback) |
|
