“Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be.”- Euripides

Celebrate Women's History Month with us as we discuss The Trojan Women by Euripides! Join us, the show's director, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Music, Theater and Dance department, Dr. Tara Brooke Watkins, AND the cast of Trojan Women for an excerpt performance to kick off the discussion.

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"Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his."
The theme is really a double one: the suffering of the victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks' reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair. Trojan Women gains special relevance, of course, in times of war. It presents a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty, but one that is also rooted in considerations of power and policy, morality and expedience. Furthermore, the seductions of power and the dangers both of its exercise and of resistance to it as portrayed in Trojan Women are not simply philosophical or rhetorical gambits but part of the lived experience of Euripides' day. (GoodReads)