The Gozo Creative Theatre Club would like to remind everyone, that due to popular demand it will once again be presenting ‘Trojan Women’ by Euripides in collaboration with the ninth edition of the Festival Mediterranea.

(Produced in 415 BCE at the City Dionysia. This is the 3rd of a Trilogy, the preceding plays, Alexndros and Palamedes are lost.)

The Strength Of Mankind Has Always Been Its Women

After the ten-year siege, the victorious Greek army seeks to curse those Trojans whom fate has yet spared. Separated from their children, denied their mourning and destined for slavery, the women of fallen Troy huddle within the parched wreckage of their once glorious city.

Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. But it was Hekabe Ake Hecuba, widowed queen of Troy, whose enduring dignity and unfaltering strength makes cowards of Troy’s captors.

The Trojan Women is both a re-energized and evocate denunciation of human cruelty and a passionate chorus of redemption and survival.

Euripides’ play reveals how an ancient people question their faith in the traditional pantheon of gods. The play takes place in a camp where women prisoners are kept. Soldiers and messengers continuously arrive with messages and tidings from the Greek camp and the council of war being held there. The Greek ships are ready to set sail for home and the women are being taken one by one to these enemy ships. This play illustrates a string of episodes each coloured by the specific personality of the woman prisoner who figures prominently in it.

The Gozo Creative Theatre Club is an established drama group that is mostly known for its experimental theatre performances. Previous productions include The Vagina Monologues, Cindy – the Musical, In Holland Stands a House, Kickass Plays, Confusions, The Good Doctor, Dear Nobody, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, the Penis Monologues, Teechers and Ashes to Ashes.

George Mizzi will be directing a splendid group of actors which include Jamie Camilleri, Mariella Cassar, Michael Camilleri, Maria Schembri, Andy Fava, Margaret Cassar, Dianne Angie Portelli Galea, George Camilleri and Marlene Saliba. Stage design and management are in the hands of Paul Stellini and Jamie Camilleri. Artistic direction is by George Mizzi.

Trojan Women will be staged at the Astra Theatre, Victoria, Gozo this coming Friday, the 5th of November from 8pm onwards. Tickets are €8. Bookings can be made by calling 79303101 or e-mail gozocreative@yahoo.com. Tickets are also available at the door.

Please note that the seating for this performance is limited and therefore advanced booking is highly recommended.

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