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MOIRA BUFFINI
The Playwrights Database
(1965 - )
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by St John Donald
Born Cheshire. Film includes: Presence, Gabriel, the Enlightenment, Dibbuk Box, Jane Eyre. Moira Buffini's plays include Blavatsky's Tower (Machine Room), Gabriel (Soho Theatre), Silence (Birmingham Rep), Loveplay (Royal Shakespeare Company), Dinner (National Theatre and West End), Dying for It, adapted from The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman (Almeida), A Vampire Story (NT Connections), MariAnne Dreams (Almeida Theatre) and Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre). She lives in London with her husband and children.
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Welcome to Thebes
For the novel by Glendon Swarthout, see Welcome to Thebes (novel).
| Welcome to Thebes | |
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Welcome to Thebes promotional poster | |
| Written by | Moira Buffini |
| Characters | See below |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Tragedy |
Welcome to Thebes is a 2010 play by Moira Buffini. It premiered on 15 June 2010 in a production at the Olivier Theatre of the Royal National Theatre in London directed by Richard Eyre.
Plot
[edit]Set in 'a city named Thebes, somewhere in the 20th century',[1] the play is introduced by militia sergeant named Miletus and two child soldiers under his command, Scud and Megeara. They discover the body of Polynices, a warlord in the recently ended civil war and brother of Antigone and Ismene. Meanwhile, Ismene and the new female president of Thebes, Eurydice, widow of Creon and head of an all-female cabinet (except for the minister of Education, who is a 'token man'), get ready for the arrival of Theseus, first citizen of the powerful democratic state of Athens. He is on his way for talks with Eurydice regarding aid to rebuild Thebes after the civil war. The cabinet's Justice Minister spends the same time gathering testimonies from victims of the civil war, such as Polykleitos, whose son died in the war. The ch