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World Service,3 mins

Ben Okri: The play that changed me

The Cultural Frontline

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'It was as if I was walking on stilts, stilts made of new perception'. Ben Okri, the Nigerian born poet and author of the best selling 'The Famished Road' describes his reaction when he first saw Peter Hall’s production of the Greek tragedy The Oresteia at the National Theatre in London in the early 1980s.

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