Sophocles , Martin Crimp
Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Meanwhile Amelia waits for news of her husband, the great General. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold on to his love. Martin Crimp takes Sophocles' ancient story of marriage and violence and propels it into a modern world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism.
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Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre in the 1980s. His plays include: When we have sufficiently tortured each other (2019), Men Asleep (2018), The Rest Will be Familiar To You From Cinema (2013, voted by Germany’s Theater heute best foreign play of the ...