Women of Troy
Lyttelton, National Theatre, London from 21st November 2007 to 12th January
2008
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors
wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen,
watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns
around them. A radical interpretation of Euripides’ great tragedy.
This atmospheric production moves at a gallop with a brilliant
Chorus full of individualised performances led admirably by Kate
Duchene's heartfelt Hecuba - a powerhouse performance. She is
well supported by Sinead
Mathew's touched Cassandra, Anastasia Hille's distraught
Andromache and caged-tigress,
Susie Trayling as Helen. The setting is a Bunker in a war-torn
nation reminiscent of a Balkan state. For hard hitting Greek trajedy this
is a step forward from synchronised white robed drudgery. Director Katie
Mitchell continues
her good form in re-vamping the classics.
My
Theatre Review
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