Preview
Production Season
Spring 2019
Dates of Performance
April 11-14, 2019
Production Staff
Directed by Caroline Good
Recommended Citation
Theatre, DePauw, "Trojan Women" (2019). Past DePauw Theatre Seasons. 64, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/commtheatre_past/64
Keywords
undergraduate theatre
Play Summary
Euripides’ Trojan Women is the one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written. It depicts the suffering of women and children after every war. It has been used many times to protest against war and to act as a warning for audiences who see it. It can also be a consolation for those who are suffering, because in it they see that over the ages, others too have suffered. In our moment in time when war should be obsolete, it is a time filled with perpetual war, fueled by a hunger for power, and yet rather than spreading democracy, the tragedy of displacement, death, and destruction is spread and must be endured by those current victims of war, just like the Trojan women. In contrast to the grief of the women, the barbarism of the so-called civilized Greeks is an indictment of all imperialists. Hence, the unfortunate relevance today of this story that was written over 2,000 years ago.