“Hecuba/Helen” is engaging, well-designed and smoothly executed — it could be worth seeing for these virtues alone. However, despite ample opportunities presented in the original text, ...

Hecuba is a fallen woman. Seeking vengeance after the death of her children, she’s a former queen turned slave, following a disastrous war. Helen is a famous beauty; the “face that launched a ...

When: Friday through March 10; showtimes at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Where: Stage Left, 108 W. Third Ave. Loosely based on Euripides’ play of the same name, “Hecuba ...

Euripides’s “Trojan Women’’ is often held up as a model of antiwar sentiment. It is that, but it’s also a masterwork of human psychology in which the title women, bereft of all hope ...

Hecuba is upset with Helen over her role with the war. Helen would change sides based on who might be winning. Hecuba offered to help Helen escape Troy but to no avail. Troy has fallen. Days after ...

The Iliad has been described as "war music", and the music of war is not always martial. Embedded within the structure of the Iliad are many instances of keening, or lament, usually by women, often in ...

Helen being there is so loaded because she's essentially ‘owned’ by one of the most powerful Kings in the world, and by escaping to Troy she and Paris have given him cause to attack. Hecuba ...

Read the monologue for the role of Hecuba from the script for Trojan Women by Euripides. ... is to become a slave, as are the other women. Helen of Troy, who was the cause of this fierce battle, ...