Paradise

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Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest makes her National Theatre debut with 'Paradise', a potent and dynamic reimagining of the Greek classic 'Philoctetes' by Sophocles. Once comrades, now enemies after Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes to suffer a terrible wound alone, Odysseus is prepared to use any means necessary to get the shell-shocked Philoctetes back to the front and win the Trojan war.