Baal
Babies Grow Old
Back to Methuselah
Bad Weather
George Baker
Sean Baker
The Balcony
Bandits
Teresa Banham
Barbarians
Frances Barber
The Barbican
Howard Barker
Peter Barnes
Desmond Barrit
Bartholomew Fair
John Barton
Linda Bassett
Bastard Angel
Alan Bates
Simon Russell Beale
Sean Bean
The Beast
Maureen Beattie
Francis Beaumont
Beauty and the Beast
The Beaux' Stratagem
Becket
Samuel Beckett
Beckett Shorts
The Beggar's Opera
Brendan Behan
Katy Behean
Aphra Behn
Belcher's Luck
Believe What You Will
Christopher Benjamin
Paul Bentall
John Berger
Sarah Berger
Cicely Berry
Suzanne Bertish
Kirsty Besterman
Paul Bettany
The Bewitched
Bingo
Birdsong
The Birthday Party
The Bite of the Night
Colin Blakely
Claudie Blakley
Marjorie Bland
Brian Blessed
The Blue Angel
The Body
Michael Bogdanov
Robert Bolt
Edward Bond
Samantha Bond
Ken Bones
Hugh Bonneville
Laurence Boswell
John Bott
Dion Boucicault
John Bowe
Raymond Bowers
Robert Bowman
Stephen Boxer
Michael Boyd
Danny Boyle
David Bradley
John Bradley
Cathryn Bradshaw
Kenneth Branagh
Brand
Breaking the Silence
Bertolt Brecht
Howard Brenton
David Brierley
The Bright and Bold Design
Stephen Brimson Lewis
Jasper Britton
Brixton Stories
Jim Broadbent
The Broken Heart
Richard Brome
Peter Brook
Siân Brooke
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Bille Brown
Susan Brown
Brenda Bruce
Emily Bruni
Giordano Bruno
Robert Bryan
Georg Büchner
Mikhail Afanaseyev Bulgakov
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Bundle
Anthony Burgess
Alfred Burke
Alan Burrett
John Bury
Judy Buxton
Patsy Byrne
Lord Byron
In this epic play Howard Barker appropriates the Trojan War to make points about imperialism and misogyny. A professor and a student travel to Troy, where the soldiers attacking the city have English names and Helen, blamed by everyone, is mutilated and placed in a pram pushed by the blind Homer. This is just the beginning. The plot sounds like fantastical nonsense when summarised, but the imagination and linguistic power of the writing is undeniable. The RSC premiered the play at the Pit in a production by Danny Boyle, his first as a member of the Company. Nigel Terry played the professor, Sean Baker the leader of the soldiers, and David O'Hara the student. Diane Fletcher played Helen of Troy.
Kandis Cook (design); Rory Dempster (lighting); Barrington Pheloung (music).
Nigel Terry (Savage), Sean Baker (Shade), Diane Fletcher (Helen), John Carlisle (Schliemann), Mark Dignam (Homer), David O'Hara (Hogbin), Darlene Johnson (Creusa), Clive Russell (Macluby), Michael Cadman (Fladder), Naomi Wirthner (Trojan Woman), Jimmy Gardner (Old Man), Janet Amsbury (Gay), Richard Leaf (John), Steven Elliott (Epsom), Gordon Case (Gummery), Ian Bailey (Yorakim), Diana Barrand (Charity), Jimmy Gallagher (Boy), David Pullan (Asafir)
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