Women and the Trojan Horse

Praxis Theatre Laboratory presents Women and the Trojan Horse, a play by Sam Dowling and Nick Warren, as part of the 10th annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Loosely adapted from the Greek tragedy The Trojan Women, this play deals with women in extremity: women surviving war; women surviving prison; women surviving racism; women surviving love, and hate. This story, as old as civilization itself and as new as tomorrow’s headlines, is told in usual Praxis style, with wit and a keen insight into how four women cope with personal and national crises when their city falls to the invading army.

Gifted to the besieged city of Troy by a double agent, the Trojan Horse, its belly crammed with enemy commandoes, is a symbol of both treachery and fertility. It inspired the tragedies of Euripides and Seneca in ancient Greece, from whom the characters are borrowed. Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen and Hera are placed in a time and location where the wars of history meet the wars of the New World Order. War is the background, but human relations, differences, and family loyalty are very much in the foreground of the play.

Schedule

Tuesday, August 22 @ 4:45pm
Wednesday, August 23 @ 6:30pm
Thursday, August 24 @ 8:45pm
Saturday, August 26 @ 8:45pm
Sunday, August 27 @ 1pm