ROMEO AND JULIET - Stratford Festival

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Lessing died in 1781 at the age of fifty-two and is buried at Braunschweig, Germany. Works (selected) The Young Scholar (Der junge Gelehrte) (1748) The Freethinker (Der Freigeist) (1749) The Jews (Die Juden) (1749) Miss Sara Sampson (1755) Philotas (1759) Fables (Fabeln) (1759) Laokoon oder Ueber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (1766) Minna of Barnhelm (Minna von Barnhelm) (1767) Emilia Galotti (1772) Anti-Goeze (1778) Nathan the Wise (Nathan der Weise) (1779) Ernst und Falk - Gespräche für Freymäurer (1776-1778) The Education of Humankind (Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts) (1780) - 48 -
THE TROJAN WOMEN By Euripides in a new translation by Nicholas Rudall Director – Marti Maraden Tom Patterson Theatre Designer – John Pennoyer May 14 to October 5 Lighting Designer – Michael J. Whitfield Opens May 30, 2008 ______________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE PLAY OVERVIEW Euripides’ play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and their remaining families about to be taken away as slaves. The play is also a commentary on the consequences of war, the actions of the victors and the fate of those defeated, presented from the point of view of the conquered. SYNOPSIS On the second morning after the fall of Troy and the massacre of all its male inhabitants, Poseidon appears to lament the ruins and vow vengeance against the Greeks. To his surprise, Pallas Athena, the goddess who had aided the Greeks, joins him in plotting a disastrous homeward voyage for the victors who have despoiled her temple in Troy. They withdraw as Hecuba rises from the sleeping Trojan women to mourn the burning city and her dead sons and husband. Talthybius, herald of the Greeks, arrives to announce the women are to be distributed among the victors: Cassandra to Agamemnon, Polyxena to the tomb of Achilles, Andromache to Achilles’ son Neoptolemus, and Hecuba herself to Odysseus, king of Ithaca and conceiver of the wooden horse that had led to the fall of the city. Amid the cries of the grieving women, the prophetess Cassandra appears, foretelling the disasters which will come upon the conquerors. Hecuba, broken with grief, collapses to the ground. From the city comes a Greek-drawn chariot loaded with the spoils of war and bearing Andromache and her infant son Astyanax. Talthybius returns to carry off Astyanax, whose death has been ordered by the Greeks to ensure he will never grow to avenge the death of his father, Hector. King Menelaus arrives, demanding his faithless wife Helen be returned to Greece, where the relatives of those who died for her sake may have the pleasure of stoning her to death. Helen follows, pleading her innocence. Talthybius returns, bearing the crushed body of Astyanax on Hector’s shield; the city of Troy is set on fire, and its mighty towers collapse as the women are led away into captivity. - 49 -
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