Women of Troy: Euripides’ Masterpiece Comes to LPAC

The Trojan Women is unsocial among past tragedies due to the fact that it refuses to absorption connected the “glory” of the victors. Photo provided

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, successful collaboration with Eclipses Group Theater NY, presents The Trojan Women, Euripides’ searing anti-war tragedy. Featuring a multicultural formed of nonrecreational actors, unrecorded music, and a caller English translation by co-artistic manager Demetri Bonaros, this large-scale accumulation brings caller urgency to an past classic.

The play volition beryllium performed connected May 14-16 astatine 7pm, and May 17 astatine 4pm.

Set successful the aftermath of Troy’s fall, the play follows Queen Hecabe (played by Anthoula Katsimatides) and the women of Troy arsenic they look loss, enslavement, and exile.

A searing, multicultural exploration of war’s existent cost

Written successful 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, The Trojan Women is unsocial among past tragedies due to the fact that it refuses to absorption connected the “glory” of the victors. Instead, Euripides turns his lens toward the defeated, specifically the royal women of Troy who person survived the slaughter of their men and present hold connected the formation to beryllium claimed arsenic warfare prizes.

By centering the communicative connected Hecabe, the fallen queen, Euripides creates a profound survey of grief and resilience. It is simply a play that strips distant the heroic story of the Trojan War, revealing it alternatively arsenic a chaotic, heartbreaking quality catastrophe successful which the lone “prize” for the victors is motivation decay.

Directed by Ioanna Katsarou, this isn’t conscionable a play piece; it is simply a searing, multicultural exploration of war’s existent cost. With unrecorded percussion and a divers nonrecreational cast, The Trojan Women remains a devastatingly applicable representation of those near down successful the aftermath of violence.

This accumulation was supported by the Art Grants for Queens Grant, the New York State Council connected the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the enactment of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

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