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Long lost play, The Story of Vasco, by Ted Hughes is to have its premiere

An unpublished play by Ted Hughes that had escaped the notice of scholars will be performed for the first time, after the discovery of the manuscript in a university library.

Hughes, who died in 1998, wrote The Story of Vasco in the late 1960s, but his version of the play was never performed because it was intended to be adapted into a libretto for an opera.

The play is an adaptation of a French drama by Georges Schehadé, but Hughes infused it with his own language and imagery.

The opera, also called The Story of Vasco, was performed at Sadler’s Wells in 1974, but Hughes’s source material was heavily cut, according to Gordon Crosse, who wrote the music...
Read entire article at Times (UK)