Die Troerinnen: 2nd Season

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Play freely adapted from Euripides by Sarah Franke

It is 2024, almost 2500 years after Euripides wrote his Trojan Women. Agony and lamentation still ring through time today. News images show what the Trojan women 's initial situation was. The reports are similar. Terrible individual fates always come back to the same denominator:

Land colonization runs parallel to the capture of female bodies. After thousands of years, rape remains a weapon of war. While the world is changing and wars are changing, this form of absolute humiliation and demonstration of power and strength persists. And so the times become blurred inThe Trojan Women: 2nd Season.

The war has just ended. Troy has finally been taken by the Greeks and the city lies in ruins. The king and his sons have fallen. What remains are the Trojan women waiting for their lotteries: Hecabe, once queen, now faces a terrible future, especially for her daughters. Cassandra, the unheard-of seer, whose thoughts of revenge are growing ever louder. Andromache, Hector's widow and Hecabe's daughter-in-law, remains behind with her son Astyanax. In order to rule out any claim to power, he is to be killed as the last male descendant of Troy. The murder of the child is the cruel culmination of all the violence. Helen is also part of the waiting women; she is branded as the initiator of the war, as the Trojan king's son Paris has abducted her from Menelaus, the heir to the Greek throne. Women who have built a life for themselves, who have been mothers, wives and sisters, must leave their homeland for the unknown.

With The Trojan Women: 2nd Season, director and writer Sarah Franke is looking for a new narrative, and she's not just looking to antiquity. The myth of the mother, the myth of the goddess of revenge, the ominous, the pithy, the anemic. There are stereotypes that are told over and over again. Women and their struggles are usually told exclusively from the victim's perspective - we want to try to look at it from multiple perspectives. What should the story be called so that it is no longer war and destruction?