Andromache [Drama On 3]

Author

Jean-Baptiste Racine

Adaptor

Edward Kemp

Andromache

Tanya Moodie

Pyrrhus

Alex Lanipekun

Orestes

Joel MacCormack

Hermione

Susannah Fielding

Pylades

Gunnar Cauthery

Phoenix

Raad Rawi

Cephisa

Mia Soteriou

Cleone

Rosie Hilal

Composer

Chris Drohan

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Jeremy Mortimer

Series

First
Broadcast

Repeated

Comments

DO3

20170122

20200913 (R3)

Jean Racine's play, first performed in 1667, is set a year after the Fall of Troy in Epirus, where Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, is ostensibly betrothed to Helen's daughter, Hermione. Pyrrhus however is pining after Hector's widow, Andromache. The play opens as Orestes, son to Agamemnon, comes with a message from the Greeks demanding that Pyrrhus should hand over Andromache's son Astyanax. Orestes, it so happens, is in love with Hermione.

Edward Kemp's version of the play is set against a present-day soundscape and asks 'when a culture has endured a shattering event - the Trojan War or one of the world-changing events of the current century - how can we move on? And if we can't, are we destined to repeat the same cataclysmic mistakes over and over again?

Translated by Edward Kemp

A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 3.

Edward Kemp's version of the play is set against a present-day soundscape and asks, 'When a culture has endured a shattering event - the Trojan War or one of the world-changing events of the current century - how can we move on? And if we can't, are we destined to repeat the same cataclysmic mistakes over and over again?

By Jean Racine. With Tanya Moodie as Andromache and Joel MacCormack as Orestes.

Episodes

Series	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
DO3	20170122	20200913 (R3)	Jean Racine's play, first performed in 1667, is set a year after the Fall of Troy in Epirus, where Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, is ostensibly betrothed to Helen's daughter, Hermione. Pyrrhus however is pining after Hector's widow, Andromache. The play opens as Orestes, son to Agamemnon, comes with a message from the Greeks demanding that Pyrrhus should hand over Andromache's son Astyanax. Orestes, it so happens, is in love with Hermione. Edward Kemp's version of the play is set against a present-day soundscape and asks 'when a culture has endured a shattering event - the Trojan War or one of the world-changing events of the current century - how can we move on? And if we can't, are we destined to repeat the same cataclysmic mistakes over and over again? Translated by Edward Kemp A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 3. Edward Kemp's version of the play is set against a present-day soundscape and asks, 'When a culture has endured a shattering event - the Trojan War or one of the world-changing events of the current century - how can we move on? And if we can't, are we destined to repeat the same cataclysmic mistakes over and over again? By Jean Racine. With Tanya Moodie as Andromache and Joel MacCormack as Orestes.