Fantastic work! Being able to concentrate only on the close ups made it super powerful! Not a big fan of theatre in general, but I adored this one because of your clear vision with a minimum of means. It was closer to cinema I would say. Congratulations to the whole team!
Man, this looks very cool and awesome, just by hearing the actors speak to eachother, I already visualize Troy in front of me, where so much suffering has passed over the whole city and it's population...very well done for this play, enjoyed every minute of it ;-)
Great job everyone! I'll be using this to discuss how women in conflict is explored in this play, and I love the idea of including the conflict and damage done by the pandemic! May I ask, how come you decided to include the gods prologue? A lot of people exclude it as they feel like it takes away from the very real torment of the women, what do you feel it adds? Thank you for sharing!
Hello Stephanie, thanks for the comment. Yes, I understand many people leave out the prologue. We felt it was important for 2 reasons. 1) it serves as a means for some fairly important exposition; mostly by Poseidon. Basically, he talks about events that take place before the war, that is useful to know. But more important he mentions some critical present information. He tells us that Helen is amoung the women captives so, as she is the last character to appear, we are anxiously waiting for her entrance. He also tells us what Agamemnon plans to do with Cassandra. Likewise, he tells us that Hecuba's other daughter, Polyxena, is dead and Hecuba does not yet know. This ties in to the scene with Talthybius and creates a good deal of conflict when Talthybius is hedging around, not wanting to tell Hecuba the truth, but the audience already knows the truth because Poseidon has told us. Basically, this is the purpose of exposition, it frees the audience so that they do not have to burden themselves with figuring out everything "on the fly" as events are happening in real time. And it creates those heightened moments when the audience knows something the characters don't know. The kind of conflict that is created when the audience knows what the characters don't know is at the root of all drama. 2) By bringing in the gods we include an important element of the Greek's world, the notion of Fate. Modern civilizations often do not include Fate in our thinking but the ancients considered it in every aspect of their lives. This element of the gods also gives Helen more credibility, as without the element of the gods controlling events she would be a more one dimensional character and everyone would be correct for blaming her for everything bad that happens.
Brilliant! Everyone did an absolutely amazing job. Euripides would be proud 😁
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Well, done!!! Hecuba brought me to tears multiple times! Great job everyone
Thank you so much!
Fantastic work! Being able to concentrate only on the close ups made it super powerful! Not a big fan of theatre in general, but I adored this one because of your clear vision with a minimum of means. It was closer to cinema I would say. Congratulations to the whole team!
Thank you, Alina!
Man, this looks very cool and awesome, just by hearing the actors speak to eachother, I already visualize Troy in front of me, where so much suffering has passed over the whole city and it's population...very well done for this play, enjoyed every minute of it ;-)
Thank you! We're happy you enjoyed it.
Great job everyone! I'll be using this to discuss how women in conflict is explored in this play, and I love the idea of including the conflict and damage done by the pandemic!
May I ask, how come you decided to include the gods prologue? A lot of people exclude it as they feel like it takes away from the very real torment of the women, what do you feel it adds?
Thank you for sharing!
Hello Stephanie, thanks for the comment. Yes, I understand many people leave out the prologue. We felt it was important for 2 reasons. 1) it serves as a means for some fairly important exposition; mostly by Poseidon.
Basically, he talks about events that take place before the war, that is useful to know. But more important he mentions some critical present information. He tells us that Helen is amoung the women captives so, as she is the last character to appear, we are anxiously waiting for her entrance. He also tells us what Agamemnon plans to do with Cassandra.
Likewise, he tells us that Hecuba's other daughter, Polyxena, is dead and Hecuba does not yet know. This ties in to the scene with Talthybius and creates a good deal of conflict when Talthybius is hedging around, not wanting to tell Hecuba the truth, but the audience already knows the truth because Poseidon has told us.
Basically, this is the purpose of exposition, it frees the audience so that they do not have to burden themselves with figuring out everything "on the fly" as events are happening in real time. And it creates those heightened moments when the audience knows something the characters don't know. The kind of conflict that is created when the audience knows what the characters don't know is at the root of all drama.
2) By bringing in the gods we include an important element of the Greek's world, the notion of Fate. Modern civilizations often do not include Fate in our thinking but the ancients considered it in every aspect of their lives. This element of the gods also gives Helen more credibility, as without the element of the gods controlling events she would be a more one dimensional character and everyone would be correct for blaming her for everything bad that happens.