Word: hecuba
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...Saturday, March 28—follows Lotte, a British doll repair-woman, who goes on vacation in modern Troy. There, she stumbles into calamity, finding herself in an all-female concentration camp where rape is rampant and death, inevitable. At the camp, she meets several broken Trojan women, including Hecuba, who finds her family growing smaller by the hour, and Andromache, who clings desperately to her only immediate family—her son.The play is based upon Euripedes’ “Trojan Women,” a tragedy that traces the lives of four Trojan women awaiting their...
Acts like Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Hecuba, and Sufjan Stevens—a whole family of contemporary musicians of congenial tastes, really—are both obsessed with Karen Dalton and indebted to her. Bob Dylan called her his “favorite singer in the place” in his autobiography. So why do so few know about...
...Demokos (Ben C. Cosgrove ’10), the ancient president of the Trojan Senate, provided much needed comic relief—and a reminder that human folly ultimately governs the play. And compared to the fatuous Helen, Andromache (Courtney G. Bowman ’11) and Hecuba (Caitlin Lowans) gave compelling performances as paragons of strong and virtuous women who desire peace and stability for their children above all else...
...bewailed their fates and unobtrusively mimed actions suggested by the dialogue. This employment was fairly successful, although occasionally the wailing drowned out parts of the dialogue. The inaudibility of certain lines, however, was remarkably irrelevant to the effect of the production; the mournful gesturing, particularly on the part of Hecuba, the Queen of Troy (Harvard employee Isabel del Carmen Quintana), expressed at least as much as the somewhat repetitive speeches...
...itself, one that a great many companies couldn't have managed. Moreover, the production was excellent when it came to spectacle--a dazzling and chilling set of scenes at the play's center revolved around the play-within-a-play, featuring masks, musicians and a tremendous rendition of "Hecuba" monologue by Player King Dan Berwick '01--and the sword-fight at the end was all it had been cracked up to be. Spectacle, in Hamlet, can go a long...