Shaw, LondonHas there ever been a time in the 2,500 years since their composition that Euripides's great anti-war plays, The Trojan Women and Hecuba, have not been topical? When audiences could say with smug certainty, "These plays could not possibly apply to us"? Surely not. But with Iraq still vivid in the mind and RAF jets flying over Libya, poet Glyn Maxwell's drama " which does not so much conflate the two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:29PM on March 21, 2011