The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus had a unique one-performance world premiere in the ancient stadium of Delphi in 1988. During 1989 it was performed at the National Theatre, London, and in unique historical spaces in Saltaire and Carnuntum. In it Tony Harrison remakes the fragmentary text of a satyr play by Sophocles into an astringent comedy for our times, incorporating into the action the two Edwardian papyrologists who discovered the original. This edition contains the text both as it was performed in Delphi and in the version performed at the National Theatre.
- ISBN13 9780571163069
- Publish Date 4 March 1991 (first published 19 March 1990)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 6 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English