The Literature Network - Greek tragedy and the war on terror 'If the play gets good in rehearsal, I destroy it.' Luc Bondy, a Swiss-born theatre director, explains his working methods to Aleks Sierz - and his hopes for a new adaptation of Sophocles

Greek tragedy and the war on terror 'If the play gets good in rehearsal, I destroy it.' Luc Bondy, a Swiss-born theatre director, explains his working methods to Aleks Sierz - and his hopes for a new adaptation of Sophocles

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040418
Author:ALEKS SIERZ

Here's a marital nightmare: imagine being the wife of a successful general who's leading a counter-insurgency campaign in remotest Africa. One day a teenaged African refugee arrives on the doorstep of your safe European home. Your husband claims he's rescued her, but you find out that she's his mistress. And that he's burned down a whole city for her sake.

That's the plot of Cruel and Tender, a free adaptation of Sophocles's tragedy Women of Trachis that opens in London later this month. With a cast that includes Kerry Fox (last seen in Intimacy), it's being staged at the Young Vic by the ...

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Greek tragedy and the war on terror 'If the play gets good in rehearsal, I destroy it.' Luc Bondy, a Swiss-born theatre director, explains his working methods to Aleks Sierz - and his hopes for a new adaptation of Sophocles

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