presented by Open Space Theatre
Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes, including a 20 minute interval.
All welcome.
charity. comedy. family. live music. musical. opera. play.
A captivating play which shares the story of the fate of Hecuba, queen of Troy, as well as the many other women who lost sons and grandchildren in the Trojan war with Sparta.
Euripides’s Women of Troy was first performed the year after the Athenians killed all the men and enslaved the women and children on the island of Melos which had wanted to remain neutral in the war with Sparta. In the play, the women of the burning, ran-sacked city of Troy are imprisoned on the beach waiting to be “allocated” to members of the victorious Greek Army and to serve as slaves or concubines. Among them is Hecuba, queen of Troy.
To this day Women of Troy is heralded as one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written.
This Open Space production features the work of choreographer, Caroline Mummery, and composer, William Drew-Batty. The translation is by Kenneth McLeish.
Open Space Theatre Company was founded in 2008 and has presented many classic plays over the past 14 years, including A View From the Bridge and Death of a Salesman, both by Arthur Miller, and The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, amongst many others.
The company is based at Wingfield Barns, near Eye, and tours venues in Suffolk and Norfolk.
Its artistic director is David Green who has a MA degree in theatre direction from the University of East Anglia. He has previously directed an acclaimed production of another Greek tragedy, Medea, also by Euripides.