Tantalus: The Greek Epic Cycle Retold in Ten Plays

by John Barton

Overview

When theatre began, two and a half millenia ago in ancient Greece, it drew from a well of even older myths, the Great Epic Cycle. These stories and characters from the beginning of our imagination inspired John Barton to write the great cycle of human life, Tantalus, an epic theatre myth for the new millenium, and one of the most ambitious theatrical ventures of our times produced by the RSC and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, directed by Sir Peter and Edward Hall. (UK tour Jan-May 2001)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783190287
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/17/2014
Series:	Oberon Modern Playwrights
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Barton is a director and an Advisory Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (which he helped found in 1959). He spent nearly 20 years developing his epic 'Tantalus', which is an extension of his earlier work, 'The Greeks' (1980). He has adapted some twenty texts for the theatre and has also published, 'The First Stage', 'The Hollow Crown', 'The Wars of the Roses', 'The Greeks', 'La Ronde' and 'Playing Shakespeare'.