The Trojan Women

We invite you to join us for our MIFA One Act Theatre team’s final performance of The Trojan Women:

In the wake of their devastating defeat, the women of Troy, all now widows, wait on the beach below the ravaged city to be claimed by their Greek conquerors as slaves and concubines. Though the war is over, exile and degradation lie ahead and the fates of these women, including Queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra, the doomed, mad prophetess, and her daughter-in-law Andromache, widow of the great Hector, are still in the balance. Written in 415 B.C., Euripides’ powerful drama is often hailed as one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written which focuses, sometimes uncomfortably, on how war affects the innocent: women, children, and civilians. The Trojan Women is definitely a prayer – for justice, for meaning, for help, for an end to senseless violence.