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The victorious leader Creon, who is forced to choose between his public responsibility and personal concerns and all too late realises the fatal consequences of his decisions.

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Author: Seamus Heaney
Music: Dominique Le Gendre

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Archive listings for The Burial at Thebes (2008)

Work type: Musical.

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Derek Walcott directs a company of over 30 orchestra, soloists and chorus to recreate the action in Heaney’s epic poem with dramatic narration in a Trinidadian Rapso style.Director Derek Walcott. Design Derek Walcott. Lighting Helen O'Neill. Choreographer Melanie Simpson. Design Malwina Chabocka (Associate Designer). Conductor Peter Manning. Performer John Joyce (Guard). Performer John Van der Put (Messenger). Performer Biran Green (Creon). Performer Idit Arad. Performer Andrea Baker. Performer Andy Morton. Performer Martin Nelson. Performer Magdalen Ashman. Performer Daniel Keating-Roberts. Performer Richard Coxon. Performer Franz Hepburn. Performer Gregoire A. Meyer.

11 Oct 08 to 12 Oct 08

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165
listing details L1932179626

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