by Caroline Bird after Euripides
Directed By Rachel Sledd Iannantuoni

A blisteringly relevant modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison.

The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await their fate. Stalking the antiseptic confines of its mother and baby unit is Hecuba, the fallen Trojan queen, whilst the pregnant Chorus is shackled to her bed.

But their grief at what has been before will soon be drowned out by the horror of what is to come, as the Greek lust for vengeance consumes everything – man, woman and baby – in its path.

This caustic and radical new version of Euripides' classic tragedy comes from one of the UK's most exciting young poets, Caroline Bird. It is an intense, gripping look at what happens when the world collapses.

Source: Publisher – Oberon Books

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    CONTENT ADVISORY

    Please be advised this production contains strong language; discussions and descriptions of rape and/or sexual assault; abuse (physical, mental, verbal, sexual, and harm of pregnant persons); self-harm; stage violence, non-firing prop gun; pregnancy and childbirth; blood;  war

     

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    RUN TIME

    Run Time is approximate 90 MINUTES with no intermission.

Header image by Garrett Bell. Pictured: Robert Mosby Jr., Ashway Lawver, Morgan Lavenstein