Die Troerinnen - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The battle is over, but the war is not over. Troy has fallen, columns of smoke hang over the rubble and the victorious Greeks prepare to depart. The surviving Trojan women find themselves outside the city, on the cusp between their old lives as state elites and those to come in slavery. The worst possible loss and deepest fall combine with the greatest possible uncertainty. Hecuba, Queen of Troy, mourns the murder of her husband Priam and the deaths of most of their numerous children; she doesn't know where fate will take her. With her, waiting, Hecuba's surviving daughter Cassandra, the seer who was not believed, and her daughter-in-law Andromache with her infant son Astyanax, last male heir to the Trojans -- as well as the Greek Helena, branded the instigator of war, and now upon her judgment awaits.

The Trojan women are thrown back on nothing but their bodies, filled with memory, with raging pain, wounded, marked, lamenting, one leg resting on their dead in the underworld and the other on this world to pluck out the eyes of their tormentors. "There is no longer any difference between anger and grief," says Ovid about Hecuba. The Australian director Adena Jacobs places the ghostly space in between that the women of Troy inhabit at the center of her pictorially and ruthlessly confrontation - and in it she explicitly asks about the fate of female bodies in war, about the female body as a battlefield.

The Viennese dramatist Gerhild Steinbuch translated the texts by Ovid, Seneca, Euripides and Jane M. Griffiths into German for this production.

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