Stratford Festival - Ransacking Troy
World Premier - August 6th - September 28th
Tom Patterson Theatre
Written by Erin Shields
Directed by Jackie Maxwell
Choreographed by Esie Mensah
Set and Costume Design Judith Bowden
Lighting Designer Michael Walton
Composer Deanna H. Choi
Sound Designer Thomas Ryder Payne
Fight and Intimacy Director Anita Nittoly & Moveable Beast.
“The Woman Standing Beside You Possess A Bravery the World Has Never Seen”
Everyone knows the story of the Trojan War: Trojan boy elopes with married Greek girl; angry husband tracks the lovers to the boy’s hometown; 10 years of siege warfare later, the angry husband and his posse reduce Troy to rubble. But did it have to end that way? In Ransacking Troy, playwright Erin Shields imagines a less testosterone-fuelled conclusion, in which the women of Greece—tired of waiting for their husbands to return from war—stage an intervention of historical proportions.
Photography by Ann Baggley
