TROJAN WOMEN

David Košťák

Genre: drama
Cast: 1 male, 3 female

If Helene of Troy won Miss World, would she wish for world peace? A contemporary play inspired by a recurring history.

While men are settling accounts with the past, women are losing their future. For ten years, they lived trapped within the walls of Troy. The walls are being torn down and a new prison is being prepared for the Trojan Women. They are torn from their

homes and thrown into a culture whose language they do not speak. They fell asleep one night as wives and mothers and woke up the next morning as widows. A war that belongs to men, through the eyes of women who have to cope with its consequences. A new play inspired by ancient motifs and the fate of real women, from whom war has taken everything they had taken for granted. One king lost his queen and all women lost their husbands as a result. Trojan Women borrows motifs from Greek mythology, but instead of noble families, it turns its attention to ordinary people, giving individual voice to those who, in Euripides, are only part of a nameless chorus. The play follows the fate of three women on the threshold of a new life in a strange land. The first one tries to use all the possibilities of an unfamiliar world to her advantage, the second one gets closer with the enemy in order to survive, while the third one is failing to live up to the image of the victim that society expects of her.

  The play is available in English.