Samson Agonistes by JOHN MILTON
This dramatic poem takes its subject from the Bible and its form from Greek tragedy. It was almost certainly Milton's final work. first published in 1671. ' Samson, made captive. blind. and now in the Prison at Gaza, there to labour as in a common workhouse, on a Festival day, in the general cessation from labour, comes forth into the open air.'
PAUL GAYMON. PETER PACEY ,
PETER WHITMAN
CAROLE BOYD , MADI HEDD
Special music composed and recorded by RON GEESIN
Adapted and directed by RICHARD WORTI. EY
(First broadcast in 1975) 1 have often heard Mr Thorne with enjoyment and respect, but his Samson was beyond all that.
(THE TIMES) long ware only