THURS-SUN (18th-21st) Last Performances of Troy Too by Karen Malpede
Poetic Play In Dialogue With Euripides’ The Trojan Women and Crises of Covid, Climate Change, and Racism is Directed by Avra Sidiropoulou.
Performances of Troy Too will take place May 11–21, 2023 at HERE, located at 145 Sixth Avenue, just below Spring Street, in Manhattan. The performance schedule is Thursday–Saturday at 7pm and Saturday & Sunday at 2pm. There will be two talkback sessions with the cast immediately following the matinee performances. Critics are welcome as of May 11, which also serves as the opening. Tickets, at $10 (x10), $20 (standard), $30 (true cost), and $40 (Pay it Forward), are available at www.here.org. Standard ticketing fees apply.
Crafted in the heat of the momentous year 2020, from language found on the streets of the protest marches, in the hospitals during the Covid lock-down, and from the mouths of endangered fish in the sea, Troy Too is a contemporary dialogue with Euripides’ The Trojan Women, the apocryphal play of mourning, out-rage and the dignity of lamentation. Greece’s renown classical actor, Lydia Koniordou, brings a modern and ancient Hecuba to life in English and ancient Greek. Greek director, Avra Sidiropoulou, known for her innovative multimedia stagings of modern and classical texts, bridges the divide to bring Troy Too formally and shockingly alive in an international production that cuts across languages, cultures and centuries. We are still there and there has as yet been no artistic reckoning. Troy Too is an enraged, lyric and poignant play of what we have survived, a poetic elegy for those who did not, an homage to those who were and are essential. This communal song of lament and praise has been lacking from public life.
Troy Too is an unusual collaboration between Theater Three Collaborative’s playwright, designers and core actors (including George Bartenieff on tape who speaks for the fish in the sea), and the Greek theater director Avra Sidiropoulou’s Persona Theater Company—and with an international, multi-racial cast. We are social justice theaters, and our visions have always encompassed the classical and the very modern. Avra directs in a highly exciting visual way, with a full musical and video score.
There are just 10 performances in the DOT theater at HERE. Troy Too is dedicated to the memory of TTC co-founder George Bartenieff. With special thanks to Basil Twist. Troy Too is published in Staging 21st Century Tragedies.
