{"id":17165,"date":"2019-02-15T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17165"},"modified":"2019-02-15T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:43:00","slug":"trojan-women-transports-audience-away-from-modern-day-in-powerful-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/02\/15\/trojan-women-transports-audience-away-from-modern-day-in-powerful-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojan Women<\/em> transports audience away from modern day in powerful show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pitting endless tragedy against everlasting hope, measuring the importance of loyalty for the living and for the dead, and demonstrating how even the powerless have strength: UVic\u2019s Phoenix Theatre\u2019s cast and creative team have reincarnated\u00a0Trojan Women<\/em> to its proper contemporary form. The play proves not only the severity of women\u2019s struggles after war, but also their prevalence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Jan Wood, and written around 2500 years ago by Euripides in Ancient Greece,\u00a0Trojan Women<\/em> is a tragedy to reflect the unsung: the true victims of war. Set after the Trojan War and the Greeks\u2019 slaughter of the Romans, the story has come to life once more on stage thanks to the students at UVic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trojan Women<\/em> takes the audience away to a different era (photo by Dean Kalyan).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From the outset, we are presented with a strong representation of Poseidon dressed in modern-day clothing, played wonderfully by Brendan Elwell, who captures the essence of the God\u2019s power and will. Although the entire cast of\u00a0Trojan Women<\/em> are superb, the show is stolen by the female lead, Hecuba, played by Sarah Hunsberger. Hunsberger\u2019s performance is surreal, as she displays both the pain and suffering of not only her character but also the body of a much larger entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through dialogues, monologues, and on-set pyrotechnics, the show brings the audience to a place and time where our concerns, our phones, and our lives do not exist. Truly an evening one will not forget, the theatre is more than a screen; it is a portal that transports the audience into the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The set and the reception afterwards deserve applause as well, for every detail of the production\u2014even the kind staff and the university\u2019s territorial acknowledgment\u2014provide a warm and welcoming display for any and all who wish to partake in an escape from the movie screen to a serene experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trojan Women<\/em>
Various times, Until Sunday, February 23
Various prices, UVic Phoenix Theatre
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Pitting endless tragedy against everlasting hope, measuring the importance of loyalty for the living and for the dead, and demonstrating how even the powerless have strength: UVic\u2019s Phoenix Theatre\u2019s cast and creative team have reincarnated\u00a0Trojan Women to its proper contemporary form. The play proves not only the severity of women\u2019s struggles after war, but also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17169,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions\/17169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}