IT TAKES plenty of risks, the 45-minute version of Racine’s great 17th-century tragedy Andromaque that marks the end of this year’s Play, Pie And Pint summer season of classic cuts. Frances Poet’s ...

The rolling waves of Jean Racine's mighty alexandrines have not crashed upon our shores for many years, and not least among the serious pleasures of Cheek by Jowl's Andromaque – co-produced with Peter ...

It is, perhaps, the earliest example of bad post-war planning following a dubious military victory. The ragbag Greek alliance that eventually triumphed in the Trojan War foolishly took their captives ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Racine is not what you might call an amenable playwright. Written in Alexandrine couplets, his plays observe the ...

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An unseen man lies dead and his killer is still at large.There are, however, suspects. Andromache, the woman he was forcing into wedlock, freely admits she hated him. Hermione, the woman he was ...