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Akiko Aizawa, Katherine Crockett, Ellen Lauren, et al. Set for Jocelyn Clarke’s The Trojan Women (after Euripides)

Casting has been announced for Jocelyn Clarke’s Trojan Women (after Euripides), which the SITI Company will perform at the Getty Villa’s Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, to run September 1 – October 1. Anne Bogart will direct the production, which will have original music by Christian Frederickson.

The piece is a retelling of Euripides’ Greek tragedy and focuses on four royal survivors of the Trojan War: queen Hecuba, her prophetic daughter Kassandra, her noble daughter-in-law Andromache, and Helen of Sparta, the paramour of Hecuba’s son Paris.

The company will feature Akiko Aizawa (Kassandra), J. Ed Araiza (Menelaus), Katherine Crockett (Helen), Gian-Murray Gianino (Odysseus), Leon Ingulsrud (Envoy), Ellen Lauren (Hecuba), Barney O’Hanlon (Chorus), Makela Spielman (Andromache), and Brent Werzner (Poseidon).

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