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THE GOLDEN AGE Sunday Play: The Cure at Troy

BBC Radio 3
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Seamus Heaney 's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes. Abandoned for ten years on an uninhabited island, obsessed by the wounds of the past, Philoctetes is forced to decide what is more important: his need for revenge or a possible future.
Music by Donal Lunny !
Director Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Music By:
Donal Lunny
Philoctetes:
Stephen Rea
Neoptolemus:
Brendan Gleeson
Odysseus:
Ian McElhinney
Chorus:
Anna Healy
Watchman:
Lalor Roddy
Merchant:
John Hewitt
Source: Radio Times

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