Description

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Following her award-winning Medea, Liz Lochhead has revisited the Greek classics and retold the stories of Oedipus and Antigone in a dazzling new Scots-inflected version of the Thebans. Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. Her plays include Perfect Days and new version of Moli re's Le Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

About the Author

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Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. She was born in Motherwell in 1947, studied at Glasgow School of Art and now lives in Glasgow. She first attracted notice with her play "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off", and susequently with "Perfect Days", "Misery Guts" and her adaptation of "Medea".