The Trojan Women Project

January 31 – February 25, 2018

In repertory with Coriolanus

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm
Saturday at 3pm
Sunday at 2pm and 7pm

The Trojan Women Project, led by experienced devisor and BST Artistic Associate Rachel Hynes, explores the timeless story of The Trojan Women to illuminate modern women’s relationships to war, sexuality, politics, slavery, and female-on-female violence. A blurred mash-up of song, movement, feminist text, and poetics, The Trojan Women Project employs an ensemble from different backgrounds and of different cultures, ages, and races to create a new version of the classic play that speaks to us today. This intersectional look at American women asks why being women isn’t enough to unite us and whether or not we are the losers in the American Dream. Trigger warnings: Sexual assault, emotional abuse, and police brutality. Recommended for ages 13 and above.

The Trojan Women Project presented as part of the second Women’s Voices Theater Festival. The first Festival, in fall 2015, was the largest collaboration of theatre companies working simultaneously to produce original works by female writers in history.

Buy Tickets

The Lab at Convergence
1819 N. Quaker Lane
Alexandria, VA 22302

2 hours, plus a 10-minute intermission

Single Show Tickets $20
Both Shows in the Repertory $30

The Trojan Women Project was nominated for two 2019 Helen Hayes Awards:

Outstanding Ensemble
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play — Nicole Ruthmarie

Cast

Allison Turkel
Claire Schoonover
Claudia Rosales Waters
Diana Gonzalez Ramirez
Ezra Tozian

Francesca Marie Chilcote
Karen Lange
Lisa Hill-Corley
Nancy Linden

Nicole Ruthmarie
Renea S. Brown
Ruthie Rado
Suzy Alden

Production Team

Rachel Hynes Director
Brian Gillick Set Designer
Casey Kaleba Fight Director

Briana Manente Makeup Designer
Kristina Martin Costume Designer
Laura Esti Miller Dramaturg

Kaylin Peachey Stage Manager
Amber Smithers Assistant Director

A singular event. The Trojan Women Project is packed with moments of dramatic sizzle from verbal and physical pokes and prods, along with striking flashes of sinewy poetry; surrounded by grounded, bracingly delivered monologues exploring knotty cultural and political issues of the here and now.

David Siegel, DC Metro Theater Arts

A ferocious feminist tip of the spear … its stylistic focus and controlled anger give it a very live edge.

Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post

A convergence of brutality and beauty, primal and prime.

Jeffrey Walker, DC Theatre Scene

There are moments that jar — there are moments that stun — there are moments that touch the heart — all encompassed in one performance, a rarity in and of itself. Hynes utilizes the ensemble and puts all of their individual strengths into play as well as their collective nature to perform as one unit … Gripping, unforgettable, revolutionary, and moving.

Amanda Gunther, Theatre Bloom