Trojan Women: A Love Story
By Charles L. Mee
Based on the works of Euripides and Berlioz
Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner, 2nd year MFA director
Playwright Charles L. Mee recruits “shards of our
contemporary world to lie, as in a bed of ruins, within the frame of the
classical world.” In his brutal, lusty collage, Trojan Women: A Love
Story, Dido reads Aeneas’ tarot cards in a post-apocalyptic spa and
Cassandra incarnates as a furious dominatrix. The war is ended, yet it is
unceasing: “A world destroyed by the hands of those who thought themselves the
creators of civilization.” Love songs leaven war’s ravages, and a feminist
utopia glitters, unreachable, on the horizon.