Women on Women by Women
From: Wednesday, 6th June 2001
To: Saturday, 7 July 2001
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Synopsis
The third play in the Orange Tree's season is a double bill comprising of Women of Troy by Euripides (trans. Don Taylor) and This Cookie May Contain Nuts by Tracy Hitchen.
Our Review:
7 June 2001
As part of the Orange Tree's commitment to its trainee director's scheme, there's an intriguing "Women on Women" double bill currently on offer at this most intimate of venues: a slice of classic Greek drama presented in tandem with a short contemporary play composed specifically for this space.
Superficially, these plays may seem poles as well as centuries apart, but actually they share more common ground than may be initially obvious. Euripides' drama follows the fortunes of the enslaved Trojan women after the ignoble Fall of Troy while Tracy Hitchins' endearing tale of contemporary love and internet mores chronicles the myriad frustrations of one Ellie Battercock, fettered by a dead-end job and lack of friends, but nonetheless hopefully dreaming of true romance online.
Euripides has been called the forerunner of the modern psychological playwright, and it's a perceptive description for, in Don Taylor's new translation of what is an undenia...
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