Festival Mediterranea welcomes the 'Gozo Creative Theatre Club'

The Gozo Creative Theatre Club will be making a welcome participation in the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea through the production of Euripides' Trojan Women scheduled on Friday, 5th November.

Produced in 415 BCE at the City Dionysia, this is the third of a Trilogy of plays. The preceding plays, Alexandros Palamedes are lost.  The plot revolves on the victorious Greek army, which after the ten-year siege seeks to cursethose Trojans whom fate has yet spared. Separated from their children, denied their mourning and destined for slavery, the women of fallen Troy huddle within the parched wreckage of their once glorious city.

Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. But it was Hekabe Ake Hecuba, widowed queen of Troy, whose enduring dignity and unfaltering strength makes cowards of Troy’s captors.

The Trojan Women is both a re-energized and evocate denunciation of human cruelty and a passionate chorus of
redemption and survival.

The artistic director of this production is Mr George Mizzi who is no new-comer at Teatru Astra.  Mr Paul Stellini is the designer, Mr Jamie Camilleri is the stage manager and Ms Ruth Portelli is the singer. and

Tickets for this production which starts at 20.00hrs are on sale at Euro8. Reservations can be made on 2155 0985.

25-09-2010