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'Troy is a ruin. The men are dead, most of the children are dead and the surviving women are herded behind wire, awaiting transportation or (hopefully) death. Hecuba, their Queen, awaits her uncertain future haunted by memories, visions and prophecies.
'In a series of hallucinogenic episodes she is visited by her mad, blind daughter Cassandra; her grieving daughter-in-law Andromache and the woman who triggered the whole catastrophe, Helen.
'One of the most powerful and compelling anti-war plays ever written, Euripides' tragedy reels with the consequences of destruction.'
Sydney Theatre Company website, http://sydneytheatre.com.au/
Sighted: 25/03/2009
Production Details
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Produced by the Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1, 22 September to 26 October 2008. Director: Barrie Kosky.
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Works about this Work
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Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage
Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage : Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency
London
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Routledge
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2021
22593957
2021
multi chapter work
criticism
'This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky.
'Now a prolific opera director in Europe, Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage accounts for the formative years of Kosky's career in Australia. This book provides in-depth engagements with select productions including The Dybbuk which Kosky directed with Gilgul theatre company in 1991, as well as King Lear (1998), The Lost Echo (2006), and Women of Troy (2008).
'Using affect theory as a prism through which these works are analysed, the book accounts for the director's particular engagement with - and radical departure from - classical tragedy in contemporary performance: what the book defines as Kosky's 'post-tragedies'. Theatre studies scholars and students, particularly those with interests in affect, contemporary performance, 'director's theatre', and tragedy, will benefit from Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage's vivid engagement with Kosky's work: a director who has become a singular figure in opera and theatre of international critical acclaim.' (Publication summary)
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Theatre That Messes with Your Mind
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 November 2010; (p. 20) 'Australian theatre now has all the tools in place to move on but it is stuck in the last century. Many of the old restrictions and divisions have been broken down, the talent and new techniques are in place, but its not on the road yet. Is part of the problem the audience?' Source: www.belvoir.com.au/ (Sighted 30/11/2010). -
Abjected Arcadias : Images of Classical Greece and Rome in Barrie Kosky's Oedipus, The Lost Echo and The Women of Troy
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 56 2010; (p. 109-116) -
Ferocious Women Dominate Theatre Awards
2009
single work
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— Appears in: The Australian , 20 January 2009; (p. 3) -
An Award Fit for a Queen as Tragedy Rules the Night
2009
single work
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 January 2009; (p. 3)
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A Trojan Horse for Modern Ills
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 November 2008; (p. 23)
— Review of The Women of Troy 2008 single work drama -
War in All Its Horror
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 7 October 2008; (p. 39)
— Review of The Women of Troy 2008 single work drama -
A Searing Indictment of War
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Telegraph , 5 October 2008; (p. 107)
— Review of The Women of Troy 2008 single work drama -
Tragedy Pulls No Punches
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 September 2008; (p. 21)
— Review of The Women of Troy 2008 single work drama -
Horrors Leavened by Song
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 September 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of The Women of Troy 2008 single work drama -
An Award Fit for a Queen as Tragedy Rules the Night
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 January 2009; (p. 3) -
Ferocious Women Dominate Theatre Awards
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian , 20 January 2009; (p. 3) -
She's Just Mad about Barrie
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 7 November 2008; (p. 17) -
A Nightmare by Glaring Torturer's Light
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 November 2008; (p. 18) -
Hell in Troy
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Herald Sun , 4 November 2008; (p. 62)
Awards
- 2009 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Play Nominated for the 2008 Sydney Theatre Company / Malthouse Theatre production
- 2009 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
- 2008 nominated Theatre - Companies Nominated for the 2008 Sydney Theatre Company / Malthouse Theatre production
- 2008 winner Sydney Theatre Awards — Best Mainstage Production
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