Phoenix Festival DIGITAL Playbill 2024 (2) - Flipbook - Page 7
A TROJAN WOMAN
A New Version of Euripides' The Trojan Women
by Sara Farrington
Directed by Meghan Finn
Cast
MADELYN ROBINSON.............................................……………….Irina
Place: A City Street
Run time: 50 minutes without intermission
A TROJAN WOMAN was originally commissioned by The Interbalkan
Festival of Ancient Drama of Athens (Artistic Director: Aris Asproulis) and
presented at Theatro Attikou Aldous/Katina Paxinou Attica Grove Theater
in Athens, Greece, July 2023. A TROJAN WOMAN premiered in the US
at Luna Stage, NJ (Artistic Director: Ari Laura Kreith) as a co-production
with The Tank NYC (Artistic Director: Meghan Finn) March 2024. The
print edition of the script is available at Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.
Playwright’s Note
A TROJAN WOMAN exists inside an act of modern warfare, speci昀椀cally,
an early moment in the Russian war against Ukraine that affected me deeply. Tetiana Perebyinis, 43 and her two kids, Mykyta, 18 and Alisa, 9, were
killed as they 昀氀ed on foot from their suburb of Irpin to Kyiv. The moment
was photographed by Lynsey Addario of The New York Times and came
to represent Russian brutality upon Ukrainian civilians. The ancient Greek
part of this play exists inside that moment of attack and Irina’s realization
of it, beginning on “This is Troy” and ending on “Exit the Chorus.”
— Sara Farrington, Director
