A stunning and urgent new play from the Mercury Prize winning poet Kate Tempest. Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest will make her National Theatre debut in June 2020 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. Directed by Ian Rickson with Lesley Sharp leading a large ensemble all-female cast. | Paradise by Kae Tempest, Paperback | Indigo Chapters