Tony Harrison Plays 6: Hecuba; Fram; Iphigenia in Crimea (Harrison Tony)(Paperback)

Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. 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. "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. His couplets are a feast for rhyme junkies." --Financial Times "As visually
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