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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...
...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...
...supposed to be more Tarantino than the first one, though at this point, I’d be pretty content just to see Bill killed. There’s also some small part of me, a stray Y chromosome, perhaps, yearning against its best judgment to see Troy. I mean, for Christ’s sakes man, look how many CGI ships they’ve fit into that...
...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 BC, 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...
DIED. DORIS TROY, 67, the melodically ambitious singer of the 1963 hit Just One Look, whose beginnings as a choir girl in her father's Harlem church inspired the long-running musical Mama, I Want to Sing; of emphysema; in Las Vegas. Under her birth name, Doris Payne, she wrote most of her own material, bridging gospel, soul and rock. As Doris Troy (from Helen of Troy) she sang backup for bands like the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd...