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Sunday Play: Alcestis

on BBC Radio 3

By Euripides, translated by Ted Hughes. Barrie Rutter introduces the first radio performance of the late Poet Laureate's free poetic adaptation of the Greek play in which Alcestis offers up her own life to save that of her husband KingAdmetos.
Music by Conrad Nelson and played by members of the cast. First directed for the stage by Barrie Rutter. Directed for radio by Susan Roberts.

Contributors

Translated By:
Ted Hughes.
Introduces:
Barrie Rutter
Music By:
Conrad Nelson
Unknown:
Barrie Rutter.
Unknown:
Susan Roberts.
Apollo/Prometheus:
Barrie Rutter
Heracles:
David Hounslow
Chorus 1:
Andrew Vincent
Chorus 2:
David Beckford
Chorus 3:
Andrew Whltehead
Maid:
Sarah Parks
Alcestis:
Joanne Thirsk
Admetos:
Andy Cryer
Servant:
Andy Wear
Lichas:
Tom Silbum
lolaus:
Adam Sunderland
Pheres:
Frank Moorey
Vulture:
Rachel Jane Allen

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