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Adaptation of Trojan Women starring Syrian refugees set for UK tour

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
@marktran ... Maha, one of the women in the play, said ... Khaula, another of the actors, said ... The play began as workshops with the Syrian director Omar Abusaada for 60 refugee women in Jordan from all walks of life to adapt and perform an Arabic interpretation of the play, which depicts the aftermath of the fall of Troy, when women including Queen Hecuba and children were enslaved by the victorious Greeks ... ....

Shakespeare: who put those thoughts in his head?

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
Today everybody reads Shakespeare. But what books did he read? Jonathan Bate on the writers who shaped the world’s greatest playwright – and the three books the Bard would pick for Desert Island Discs. What did Shakespeare believe? We can only guess. He left neither a diary nor a philosophical treatise ... His will is orthodox and Anglican, but that is how wills were written ... Twitter ... in Hamlet it is learned from Hecuba, in Lear from Niobe ... ....

The Mai, York Settlement Community Players, Upstage Centre, Monkgate, York

Edit York Press 18 Mar 2016
YORK playwright Mike Kenny and Hull Truck Theatre artistic director Mark Babych are fans of Southern Irish dramatist Marina Carr, and the Royal Shakespeare Company staged her radicaly "beautiful, terrifying and eloquent" reimagining of the classical tale of Hecuba last year ... ....

Letters: How about some truly national theatre awards?

Edit The Independent 14 Mar 2016
Hear hear for regional theatre (David Lister, 12 March) and a televised awards scheme which recognises the whole of the UK. Calling the London-based awards the Oliviers implies the very best nationally, but actually only has a narrow frame of reference. We have a home in Stratford-upon-Avon and a base in London at the Barbican, yet many of our fine productions last year, such as Othello and Hecuba, missed out as they were ineligible....

Have Ithaca Always in Your Mind

Edit Huffington Post 03 Mar 2016
Homer has been one of my teachers. I studied the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" in my high school ancient Greek classes. I came back to Homer in college and later in my own studies of Greek history ... Homer's "Odyssey" recounts the struggle of Odysseus to find his way back to Ithaca ... In 1966, he wrote "Hecuba in Vietnam," a poem full of anger against the violence of America in Vietnam ... The wail of Hecuba is rising against you, America." ... ....

The Trojan Women at Obsidian Offers a Modern Overlay on an Ancient Tale

Edit Houston Press 19 Feb 2016
The set-up. ... The execution. ... Arthritic and pained with old age, she commands respect as her world collapses about her ... Hecuba's in shock at her obvious tactics, and commands her to proceed if only to see her fail ... Like Hecuba, we don't believe any of her feeble excuses ... a draped sheath in royal purple for Hecuba; virginal white for Cassandra; basic hues of yellow, brown, blue for the Chorus; guerrilla warfare gear for the Greeks ... Contact ... ....

University of Oklahoma produces grim, thoughtful 'Trojan Women'

Edit The Oklahoman 17 Feb 2016
The story rests on the shoulders of Hecuba, Troy's erstwhile queen, now the leader of the surviving women. Capably performed by Kat Combs, Hecuba was both a focus for the grief of the Chorus (played by 15 women) and the individual damage done to her daughter Cassandra (Gabrielle Reyes) and her son Hector's widow Andromache (Christine Mirzayan)....

Achilles is brutal, vain, pitiless – and a true hero

Edit The Guardian 16 Feb 2016
Homer’s idolised demigod in the Iliad has plenty of loathsome aspects – but remains a magnetic figure it’s hard not to admire. After a week spent discussing the challenges the Iliad presents modern readers, I’m going to try for something more positive. I say “try” because if there’s one thing that reading ancient Greek literature has taught me, it is to beware of hubris ... Related ... Oh, and poor old Hecuba … But that’s enough for now ... ....

The Five Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: Aerial Acts and Lots of Love

Edit Houston Press 12 Feb 2016
Expect a stunning blend of music, puppetry, aerial acts, brilliant lighting and overall wonder in TORUK ... 4 and 7.30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 1.30 and 5 p.m ... The other day, one of the women in the cast said, ‘Except for this being Troy, all of this happened to [African-Americans].’ And it did.” The mostly African-American, female cast is led by Qamara Black, who plays Hecuba, the former queen of Troy ... 8 p.m. Friday ... 1 ... ....

New translation of the Iliad by Caroline Alexander – extract

Edit The Guardian 09 Feb 2016
Read a short section from the latest edition of Homer’s great epic of the Trojan wars – the first English translation by a woman. Book One. Lines 1-21. Wrath – sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Peleus’ son Achilles,. that inflicted woes without number upon the Achaeans,. hurled forth to Hades many strong souls of warriors. and rendered their bodies prey for the dogs, ... Lines 390-493 ... but grief ... nor of Hecuba herself, nor of lord Priam, ... ....

'The Trojan Women' set for University of Oklahoma

Edit The Oklahoman 07 Feb 2016
NORMAN — University Theatre and Helmerich School of Drama at the University of Oklahoma will present the epic drama "The Trojan Women.". The production opens at 8 p.m. Friday, with additional performances at 8 p.m ... Feb ... The story follows the fates of Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra and the other women of Troy after their city has been sacked, the Trojan men killed and their remaining families about to be taken away as slaves ... ....

Who were the first atheists?

Edit New Statesman 01 Feb 2016
Atheists, like believers, can feel pride in the pedigree of their beliefs, as Tim Whitmarsh's new book on atheism in the ancient world shows. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... “O vehicle of the earth and possessor of a seat on earth,” Hecuba, the Trojan queen, prays, “whoever you are, most difficult to know, Zeus, whether you are the necessity of nature or the mind of men....

Obsidian Theater Updates Euripides's Trojan Women

Edit Houston Press 28 Jan 2016
Actor Qamara Black (seen above, left) had an unexpected moment during a recent photo shoot for Obsidian Theater’s production of Trojan Women. Black plays Hecuba, the former queen of Troy. About to be taken into slavery by the conquering Greeks, Hecuba is placed in chains. “We were just taking pictures so we were making jokes, ha, ha, ha, and as soon as that chain went on my neck, I had a very visceral reaction ... Contact ... ....
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