Hampstead theatre, LondonBrenton's ambitious but muddled new drama follows a gifted young Syrian woman who attracts the attentions of an Oxford classicist, Euripides and MI5 Edward Hall ends his 10-year tenure as Hampstead's director with a rum piece: a new play by Howard Brenton loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and featuring Euripides as a character. Packed with quotes from the Iliad, the play has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM on May 5, 2019