Hecuba - Drama Classics Author:Euripides Published alongside the London West End opening in April 2005 of the RSC production starring Vanessa Redgrave - and in the wake of Clare Higgins's ecstatically received performance at the Donmar in September 2004 - Hecuba is currently the most performed of all the Greek tragedies. Not surprising, given that it deals with the aftermath of a blood... more »y war and an act of bloody revenge wreaked by a mother robbed of her children.« less