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Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December ) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster.


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Liz Lochhead's Thebans revisits the ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes, drawing together the stories of Oedipus, Jokasta and Antigone.

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Stitching together plays by Sophocles and Euripides to tell the tragic story of the House of Laius, Thebans deals with a living burial, fratricide and, ultimately, civil war.

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In her reworking of the Greek tragedies, Liz Lochhead's interest in the human dimension of whatever material she's working with gives a distinctive and highly accessible dimension to.