Premiered at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival.
The ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes, re-told by Scotland's foremost poet/dramatist.
Following her award-winning Medea (Scottish Book of the Year 2001), Liz Lochhead revisits the Greek classics in a startlingly timely re-telling of the stories of Oedipus, Jokasta and Antigone.
Liz Lochhead's Thebans was first performed at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, in August 2003, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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'An impressive and sometimes thrilling achievement... a spine-tingling sense of deep connection with the work of dramatists who died more than two millennia ago'
" - Scotsman
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'For anyone not familiar with these tales, this adaptation is a good place to start'
" - Telegraph
