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Penthesilea

on BBC Radio 3

Tragedy by HEINRICH VON KLEIST (written in 1808) in a specially commissioned version by ROBERT NYE with Barbara Jefford
Martin Jarvis. Rosalie Crutchley Kathleen Michael and David Buck
Music and sound score by DAVID CAIN
Declared by Goethe to be ' the product of a diseased imagination,' Kleist's extraordinary epic play takes the legend of Achilles and Penthesilea in an unusual variant-setting the protagonists in a world where they meet both in love and in hate, neither fully understanding the nature of their desires or their objectives. The Greeks
Kings and Generals:
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Contributors

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Heinrich von Kleist
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Robert Nye
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Barbara Jefford
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Martin Jarvis.
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Rosalie Crutchley
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Kathleen Michael
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David Buck
Antilochus:
Trevor Martin
Odysseus:
David Buck
Diomedes:
Gabriel Woolf
Achilles:
Martin Jarvis
Adrastes, a Captain:
David Valla

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