OLYMPIANS or This Place Is Condemned (A Play)

By Michael Griffin

Olympians or This Place Is Condemned is a full length play about a lonely woman, Ruth, who, in seeking to make a better future for herself, repeats the mistakes of her past. Olympians is a story of taboo, of illicit and forbidden love, of jealousy, murder and revenge. Ruth seeks romance and happiness in the arms of a friend of her son - a younger man who users her for his pleasure: she is left alone again when her son's anger is turned against his friend.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Griffin
• Release date: Jan 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311059635

Michael Griffin

Michael Griffin is a writer, editor, political analyst and specialist on the Taliban and Al Qa'ida. He regularly comments on the war in Afghanistan for BBC World, Sky and Al Jazeera. As editor he has worked for Transparency International, International Alert, Small Arms Survey and ODI. He is the author of Reaping the Whirlwind (Pluto, 2003) and Islamic State (Pluto, 2015).

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