Refugees and referendums: Ramin Gray on staging Aeschylus's The Suppliant Women
The second oldest play, adapted by David Greig for the Actors Touring Company, bursts with contemporary resonanceI'm sitting in a rehearsal room in Manchester preparing an Actors Touring Company's new version of Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women, listening to a group of young women raise their voices in praise of "untameable Artemis". She's the goddess of virginity among many other things. In this play she's pitted agai…