Word: trojans
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...America accuses them of being stooges? All of this comes on the heels of strains in Poland’s relations with its new partners in the European Union and sneering comments in major German publications last year referring to Poland as “America’s Trojan donkey...
...fame, Euripides is hard to pull off nowadays. Productions of Greek tragedies are almost always modernized to make them adhere to present-day aesthetics since audiences are not used to stylized choruses and lengthy speeches. The Athena Theater Company’s production of The Trojan Women, directed by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, was modernized, but perhaps not sufficiently so. Aside from occasional stirring moments, the play has the feel of a string of declamatory speeches...
There is no respite in The Trojan Women. The play, about the fate of the women of Troy after the city has fallen, is brutally honest about the fate of the conquered. Every few minutes a herald comes on stage announcing that one woman is to be raped, another is to become a slave, or a third’s child is to be killed. These announcements are followed by general lamentation on the part of the Trojan women, after which another horrible fate is proclaimed...
THEATER | Trojan Women...
From the Athena Theatre Company, who brought you the Valentine’s Day edition of the Vagina Monologues, comes one of Euripides’ lesser known plays. Trojan Women, first staged and produced in 415 B.C., is a portrayal of a tragic situation whereby Euripides dramatizes the postwar conditions of the women of Troy and describes the spoils of war. Runs March 11-13. Tickets $6. 8 p.m. Agassiz Theatre...