If, like me, you’re working with Eurpides’ and Seneca’s Troades or Trojan Women texts, you might find it helpful to see how modern theatre groups interpret these works. Obviously I was, which is why I spent several days scouring the internet and watching all the plays that that I could find, looking at how stagecraft, direction, acting, and character interpretation can turn create vastly different characters, some sympathetic and some not, using the same or similar texts.
It’s all about reception, folks.
Below you’ll find a range of recorded performances of Trojan Woman, free to access on a variety of video platforms. These include enthusiastic college performances, powerful fringe performances, extraordinary performances by some of the most well-known directors of classic plays in the world, and everything inbetween.
I’ve tried to include a bit of information about each performance where I can, as well as links to reviews and other information that you might find useful. If you’ve found a play or information that you think should be on this page, please let me know. It would be great to keep this page alive as an interesting resource.
Enjoy!
Plays based on Euripides’ text
Title: The Trojan Women
Director: Theodoros Terzopoulos
Theatre Group: Attis Theatre
Year: 2018
Performance Location: Ancient Theatre of Delphi
Language: Greek & others
More information
Theodoros Terzopoulos’ “Return” to Delphi
Dimitris Tsatsoulis, 3rd Oct 2018
Review
The Return of Dionysus: A Tribute to Theodoros Terzopoulos
Onassis
Theodoros Terzopoulos performance of Euripides’ Trojan Women
Recording of live performance, 7 July 2018 19h00
Theatre of Delphi
‘The Trojan Women’: Greek tragedy graces Chinese Water Theatre
CGTN, 02-Nov-2019
Legendary Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos: We are lost in technology
CGTN, 06-Nov-2019
Title: Trojan Women
Director: Tadashi Suzuki
Theatre Group: Suzuki Company of Toga
Year: 1984
Performance Location: Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles
Language: Japanese
* Note: I am not 100% sure of the year & venue
More information
Suzuki Tadashi’s Theatre: A Japanese Export that Enriches
Marianne McDonald
The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi
Ian Carruthers and Takahashi Yasunari
Tadashi Suzuki and Asian World Theatre
Article
Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart at Symposium on the Suzuki Method with SITI Company
Video interview, 3 June 2017
Tadashi Suzuki convierte ‘Las troyanas’ en un alegato antibelicista
Rosana Torres, 7 March 1986
Japan “in Ruins” – Tadashi Suzuki’s The Trojan Women
Lin Yu-pin
The Trojan Women
Suzuki Company
Recording of Trojan Woman
Tadashi Suzuki
Title: The Trojan Women
Director: Anton Ray
Theatre Group: Warrior Poet Arts
Year: 2016
Performance Location: Oregon Laboratory Theater
Language: English
Title: The Trojan Women
Director: Paolo Coruzzi
Theatre Group: ?
Year: July 2018
Performance Location: Theatro Technis, London
Language: English
Title: Troades
Director: Prof.ssa Maria Larissa Bollaci
Theatre Group: Istituto d‟Istruzione Superiore “L. Sciascia”
Year: 6 June 2019
Performance Location: Sant “Agata di Militello”, Messina, Italy
Language: Italian
Title: The Trojan Women
Director: H.R. Bradford
Theatre Group: Clear Lake High School
Year: October 27th, 2016
Performance Location: Houston, TX
Language: English
* Note: I am not 100% sure of the year & venue
Title: Die Troerinnen des Euripides
Director: ?
Theatre Group: Der Theatergruppe des BG Eutin
Year: March 2007
Performance Location: Eutin, Germany
Language: German
Title: The Trojan Women
Director: Rob Berls
Theatre Group: Theatre UNC Asheville
Year: 2018
Performance Location:Asheville, North Carolina
Language: English
Director: Alexis Solomos
Year: 1975
Performance Location: Ancient Theater of Epidaurus
Language: Greek
Plays based on Seneca’s text
Title: Trojan Women
Director: James Farrell
Theatre Group: Nameless Theatre
Year: 19 January 2013
Performance Location:The Brockley Jack Theatre, London
Language: English
Based on a translation by Howard Colyer
Title: Trojan Women
Director: Margaret Morneau
Theatre Group: Resurrection Theatre
Year: February 2014
Performance Location: Resurrection Theater, Sacramento, California
Language: English
Based on a translation by Howard Colyer
Thank you for this fantastic resource, I’ve found another performance for this page –
The Trojan Women by Euripides | full play | Greek Theatre 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZ02muwCbk
Thanks Jessica – I shall add it. It’s hard to keep track of all these things as plays appear and disappear online without warning. Hopefully this will help other folks 🙂