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Trojan Barbie

  • Christine Evans
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Greek; Roman & Biblical, Contemporary
  • 4M, 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573698675

Playwright Christine Evans melds contemporary art and culture with an ancient, mythical war in her explosive new work, Trojan Barbie... an imaginative, time-warped view of the ongoing challenges women have faced since foreign conflict first raged thousands of years ago.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Greek; Roman & Biblical, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Opportunity for Spectacle
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2007 Jane Chambers Award
    Winner! Playwrights First 'Plays for the 21st Century' Award
    Winner! 2009 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship
A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides' Trojan Women. Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides' Trojan Women.

Part contemporary drama, part homage to Euripides' Trojan Women, Trojan Barbie recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. Poetic, compassionate, and tinged with great warmth and humor, Trojan Barbie is an epic war story with a most unlikely heroine, who always looks on the bright side even as past and present collide about her.
REVIEWS:

Playwright Christine Evans melds contemporary art and culture with an ancient, mythical war in her explosive new work, Trojan Barbie...an imaginative, time-warped view of the ongoing challenges women have faced since foreign conflict first raged thousands of years ago.

Talkin' Broadway

'>'Based on Trojan Barbie, Christine Evans should be on the radar of anyone who cares about contemporary American theater. ” 

OC Weekly

Daringly conceived...As hard-edged and eloquent as slam poetry.

The Edge

You will not find a better play.  Anywhere.  Anytime.' 

The Signal Tribune
Premiere Production: Trojan Barbie appeared at American Repertory Theatre (Zero Arrow) in 2009.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Flexible casting, Expandable casting, Minority casting
  • Casting Notes: The roles of MENELAUS, CLIVE and OFFICER IN BLUE may be played by the same actor. At the director’s discretion, the same actor may also join the action as a SOLDIER (without lines) in Scenes Eleven and Fourteen. If necessary, MAX and TALTHYBIUS may also be double-cast, but if resources permit, it’s preferable to cast these as stand-alone roles.

The Trojans
HECUBA - Queen of Trojans; widow of Priam.
POLLY X - Hecuba's youngest daughter, age 15.
CASSANDRA - Hecuba's prescient daughter; late teens.
ANDROMACHE - Hecuba's daughter-in-law; Hector's widow; early 30s.
CLEA - Woman in the camp; CHORUS. Age can be flexibly cast.
ESME - Woman in the camp; CHORUS. Age can be flexibly cast.
ZOE - Woman in the camp; CHORUS. Age can be flexibly cast.
AYLA - Woman in the camp; CHORUS. Age can be flexibly cast.


The Others
HELEN - The face that launched, etc. Ageless.
LOTTE - An English tourist and doll repair expert. Age 35-50.
MICA - Camp guard; also assigned to local spin. 30s.
JORGE - Soldier from the conquering army. 20s. Latino.
MAX - Soldier from the conquering army. 20s. African-American.
MENELAUS - Helen's slighted husband; led the army that destroyed Troy. 30s or 40s.
CLIVE - Lotte's fantasy partner (actually a waiter.) Ageless and perfect.
OFFICER IN BLUE - Dues Ex Machina from the conquering army.
TALTHYBIUS - Diplomatic African gentleman; messenger from the conquering army. Age can be flexibly cast.

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A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides' Trojan Women. Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides' Trojan Women. Part contemporary drama, part homage to Euripides' Trojan Women, Trojan Barbie recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. Poetic, compassionate, and tinged with great warmth and humor, Trojan Barbie is an epic war story with a most unlikely heroine, who always looks on the bright side even as past and present collide about her.

$24.95

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