Carl Caulfield: Hecuba Reimagined

Title: Carl Caulfield: Hecuba Reimagined
Creator: Ewans, Michael
Relation: Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Vol. 12, Issue 1-2, p. 49-64
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jafp.12.1-2.49_1
Publisher: Intellect
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: This article analyses the play Hecuba Reimagined, written by Australian playwright Carl Caulfield and first performed in October 2016. Three previous twenty-first-century English versions of Euripides’ Hecuba are briefly discussed before Caulfield’s adaptation is examined. Caulfield’s modifications to, rejection of, abbreviation and amplification of parts of Euripides’ Hecuba are illustrated, and this section is followed by a detailed analysis of how he expresses the four main themes of his new play: a post-religious world, PTSD, the power of words and the rule of Law. There is a description of how the text was realized in the premiere production before a conclusion that evaluates the play, and summarizes the playwright's approach to adapting Hecuba.
Subject: Caulfield, Carl; Euripides; Hecuba; Hecuba reimagined; adaptation; reworking
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1470036
Identifier: uon:48365
Identifier: ISSN:1753-6421
Language: eng
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