The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus

The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus had a unique one-performance world premiere in the ancient stadium of Delphi in 1988.

Among the papyruses excavated in Egypt at the turn of the century by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt was a fragmentary text of a Satyr play by Sophocles. 

Tony Harrison remakes the ancient Greek original into a play for our times, in which the two papyrologists are incorporated into the work they have discovered.