by
Benedict Nightingale
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
‘A magnificently readable tour of theatrical history conducted by our best-informed living critic.’ Michael Billington
From 458 BC and the first performance of Aeschylus’ Oresteia on an Athenian hillside, to 2009 AD and Jez Butterworth’s astonishing Jerusalem at London’s Royal Court...