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Women of Troy single work   drama   - 70 mins
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Women of Troy
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'Troy is in ruin. The men, slaughtered. The women, prisoners, recoil behind wire, fearing their fate, longing for death. Memories and prophecies haunt their Queen, Hecuba: hallucinogenic visions of her daughter Cassandra; her grieving daughter-in-law Andromache, and the one mighty woman behind the whole bloody catastrophe, Helen.

'Euripides’ timeless play is a brutal tale of Athens’ invasion and enslavement of the people of Melos. In a radical twist for Western theatre it was told not from the perspective of the conquerors, but that of the survivors. Giving voice to the vanquished was a revolution: seizing centre stage from Gods, heroes and Royalty, and claiming it for the displaced.

'Archipelago’s fierce new production of Women of Troy, adapted by Tom Wright and Barrie Kosky, with a stellar cast that includes Sarah Peirse, Jane Johnson, Marta Dusseldorp, Angela Mahlatjie and Guy Hooper, directed by Ben Winspear and features a new score by Katie Noonan, libretto by Behrouz Boochani, and community chorus of women and children led by Amanda Hodder.

'With displaced people now at record numbers globally, Women of Troy interrogates what we have learned and lost and how, in war, it is the women and children who suffer the most.' (Production summary)

Production Details

  • Presented by Archipelago Productions and Ten Days on The Island, in association with the Theatre Royal. Performed 8-12 March 2023 at Theatre Royal, Hobart, Tasmania.

    Director

    Ben Winspear

    Choral Composer

    Katie Noonan

    Chorus text

    Behrouz Boochani

    Design

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Works about this Work

Greek Tragedy Reimagined with Poetry by Former Manus Detainee Behrouz Boochani 2023 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , March 2023;

'The Kurdish-Iranian writer and author spent almost seven years in detention on Manus Island after trying to get to Australia by boat' 

Greek Tragedy Reimagined with Poetry by Former Manus Detainee Behrouz Boochani 2023 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , March 2023;

'The Kurdish-Iranian writer and author spent almost seven years in detention on Manus Island after trying to get to Australia by boat' 

Last amended 15 Mar 2023 07:49:51
Subjects:
  • Troy, Ancient Greece,
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    Greece,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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