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Jude
About to be fired from her cleaning job for stealing a volume of Euripides, Jude turns her employer's outrage to shock by translating the ancient Greek on the spot. The employer, a Classics teacher, knows great talent when she sees it and the encounter kick-starts Jude's lifelong ambition to study at Oxford University. Entirely self-taught and possessing an astonishing gift for languages, Jude will stop at nothing to achieve her dream – but she remains oblivious to the hidden barriers that her background has placed in her path... Howard Brenton's play, loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure , is a modern day tale of unexpected genius and of our struggle to accommodate extraordinary talent. Jude premiered at Hampstead Theatre in May 2019.
106 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 2, 2019
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July 10, 2021
I felt like the play attacked some necessary topics of conversation and I know how evoking that would've been to watch the play live. However, I felt like some of the characters weren't as developed as others which meant I found it hard to empathise with some of them. I definitely got more into it as the play went on and really enjoyed reading it!
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