Sophocles

SH 's first play, a rendering from ancient Greek of Philoctetes by Sophocles , titled The Cure at Troy, reached print after being produced and taken on tour by the theatre company Field Day

MS wrote My Brother Michael after she had visited Greece two or three times, and was wildly in love with it. She longed to set a book there, to re-create certain places for myself and...

Her screenplay Georgia, Georgia, 1972, was the first by an African-American woman to be filmed. She worked with others on adapting her first volume of autobiography for television under its original title, and she...

TW 's ambitious, seven-hour translation and adaptation from Sophocles , The Thebans, opened at Stratford.

TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...

AC 's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...