Truly remarkable. A very wordy read from one of my theatre idols. This is a very challenging piece, both in performance and on the page. It's best to find (his sadly-out-of-print) "The Greeks", which retells the traditional stories. These stories are like the fragments that don't get told. But what poetry, and what insight! Bliss.
(This volume was published by the company which premiered the plays, but this is very much Barton's script, going to press (as it states) before opening night. Barton fell out with the director, his friend and collaborator for 50 years Peter Hall, over the latter's major edits and directorial approaches. So it's safe to say that Barton's script here doesn't reflect what audiences saw on Hall's stage, and that's probably reasonable, given the length among other things.) ( )