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Women of Troy
by Euripides from a version by Don Taylor
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one.
The city burns around them.
Only the dead shed no tears. They are beyond weeping.
A radical interpretation of Euripides’ great tragedy.
4 Stars Evening Standard
‘Feverish energy…Atmospherically impressive…
Kate Duchene as Hecuba exudes angry resilience; Susie Trayling conveys Helen’s tricksy self-justification.’
Guardian
Running Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes (no interval)
Cast credits:
Chorus : Rachel Clarke
Chorus : Pandora Colin
Hecuba : Kate Duchêne
Chorus : Laura Elphinstone
Chorus : Beth Fitzgerald
Talthybius : Michael Gould
Andromache : Anastasia Hille
Soldier : Mark Holgate
Menelaus : Stephen Kennedy
Chorus : Helena Lymbery
Cassandra : Sinead Matthews
Chorus : Penelope McGhie
Chorus : Charlotte Roach
Sinon : Jonah Russell
Helen : Susie Trayling
Production credits:
Director: Katie Mitchell
Set Designer: Bunny Christie
Costume Designer: Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Designers: Paule Constable and Jon Clark
Movement and Choreography: Struan Leslie
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry
Trailer by Stephen Cummiskey
Women of Troy finished on: 27 February 2008
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- Katie Mitchell on Women of Troy
- Women of Troy: Dominic Cavendish talks to the creative team
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