![]() ![]() It poses questions such as, if we tell these stories today, how do we speak to our contemporary realities? A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches. It shakes-up an old value system, while remembering the women, the slaves, the marginalized. The burden is heavy for the author, the performer, and for the audience, because the text invites us to face the real horror of those epic events, to question what heroism really means and to wonder which stories we should be telling today. It was the story of all of them.’įollowing Project Season’s all day, sold-out reading of ‘A Thousand Ships’ in Greek with 25 actresses, as part of the Nicosia International Festival in November 2019, described by professor Edith Hall as a “grand epic gesture…reclaiming the stories of the Trojan War”, the British Museum invited these creatives to produce a similar performance on February 22nd, in the context of their ‘Creative Responses to Troy’, series of events accompanying their current exhibition ‘Troy: myth and reality. Just as I promised him: this was never the story of one woman, or two. I have celebrated them in song because they waited long enough. I have picked up the old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight. I have sung of the forgotten, the ignored, the untold. ![]() ‘…I have sung of the women, the women in the shadows. ![]()
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