Friday, 17 October at 21:30

After the fall of Troy, the deposed queen Hecuba, the soothsayer Cassandra, the joyful Andromache and the unfaithful Helen, the cause of the disastrous war, end up as prisoners of the victors, board the ships that will transport them to Greece and lament the harsh fate that life has in store for them... Cacoyannis continues here
to explore Euripides, based on a theatrical adaptation of his own that he had staged in 1963 in New York. "In 'The Trojan Women', Cacoyannis's task was more difficult," notes Aglaia Mitropoulou. "There were no innocents (except for the children), but perpetrators and victims who knew their destiny well; and when they did not know it clearly, they foresaw it, they provoked it, playing it all for all: some daring to face and others to hold Ilion, this highest level of human cosmic power of sovereignty." Papas teaches tragedy here, in the company of leading English-speaking ladies of the theater stage and the big screen.