The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead
Buy from Faber Simon Armitage’s stage play The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead premiered at the Liverpool Everyman in 2015, directed by Nick Bagnall. Its tour of the UK as a co-production with English Touring Theatre included Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s Southbank. A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his […]
The Last Days of Troy
Buy from Faber A stage play written by Simon Armitage, commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and directed by Nick Bagnall. After a successful run in Manchester, it transferred to Shakepeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank. From the publishr’s website: Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country’s most original and engaging poets; but […]
Homer’s Odyssey
Buy from Faber Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer’s epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation. The radio drama received the Gold Awad at the 2005 Spoken […]
Jerusalem
Buy from Faber Radio Castle, the voice of Jerusalem. Your local news broadcast from the bed of housebound ex-fireman, John Edward. His son doesn’t want to join the family business, and his wife is in love with the town’s ex-policeman, but Radio Castle continues to broadcast despite everything life throws at John Edward. When the […]