Orestes: Blood and Light (NHB Classic Plays) - Softcover

"Shared Experience are the best-known touring theatre company in the country. As well as Edmundson's plays, they have staged A Passage to India, Madame Bovary and Polly Teale's Bronte trilogy - Jane Eyre, After Mrs Rochester and Bronte. 'Shared Experience has single-handedly reinvented the page to stage genre, creating works of art which are inspired by rather than handcuffed to their originals' Lyn Gardner, Guardian"

Helen Edmundson has an outstanding track record for adapting well-known stories for the stage. Her dramatisations of "Anna Karenina" and "The Mill on the Floss for Shared Experience", and "Coram Boy for the National Theatre", have won awards and consistently thrilled audiences. Shared Experience have now commissioned her to revisit the "Orestes" story: the result, based loosely on Euripides, is bound to bring us gripping and passionate drama which both respects the original and gives it a modern theatrical shape.