One of Euripides' great tragedies being produced at the National Theatre from November to March Directed by one of the leading directors, Katie Mitchell This will be a big production with all the attendant publicity and marketing, and a Platform event with the director Euripides' work is studied on Drama, Classics and Literature courses As an anti-war play it has a strong contemporary potency

An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translation to coincide with the National Theatre's production directed by Katie Mitchell in the Lyttelton auditorium. This edition of the play features an introduction by the translator setting the play in its historical and dramaturgical context.