id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5190 The Persians - Wikipedia .html text/html 2975 361 73 Ellen McLaughlin translated Persians in 2003 for Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre in New York as a response to George Bush's invasion of Iraq.[19] The production starred Len Cariou as Darius. Using Poochigian's edition, which includes theatrical notes and stage directions, "Persians" was presented in a staged read-through as part of New York's WorkShop Theater Company's Spring 2011 one-act festival "They That Have Borne the Battle."[21] Audiences valued the way this production required them to shift their attention between the spectacular landscape surrounding them, the particular history of the area, and the modern adaptation of the ancient Greek text performed onstage.[22] The work went on to win O'Reilly the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, presented by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. ^ According to the hypothesis of The Persians found, for instance, in the Loeb and OCT editions of Aeschylus' plays. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5190.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5190.txt