Women of Troy
by Euripides, translated by Phillip Vellacott
An Open Space Production, Grinnell College
After Troy's fall, Hecuba and her chorus, trapped in a cavernous industrial space, wait for their fate. Each entrance adds to their sorrow. Cassandra, a virginal priestess, is made a sex slave. Andromache's infant son is murdered. Helen of Troy, the woman blamed for all the suffering, seduces her husband into forgiveness. Through all of these horrors, Hecuba maintains that, "Death is extinction; but in life there is still hope."
Read the article in the Scarlet and Black newspaper here: Ancient Play Explores Modern Themes
by Euripides, translated by Phillip Vellacott
An Open Space Production, Grinnell College
After Troy's fall, Hecuba and her chorus, trapped in a cavernous industrial space, wait for their fate. Each entrance adds to their sorrow. Cassandra, a virginal priestess, is made a sex slave. Andromache's infant son is murdered. Helen of Troy, the woman blamed for all the suffering, seduces her husband into forgiveness. Through all of these horrors, Hecuba maintains that, "Death is extinction; but in life there is still hope."
Read the article in the Scarlet and Black newspaper here: Ancient Play Explores Modern Themes
