Radio An adaptation of the play was broadcast on the
Blue Network series
Great Plays on October 16, 1938, with
Blanche Yurka and
Selena Royle.
The Columbia Workshop broadcast an adaptation of the play by
John Houseman based on the
Edith Hamilton translation on December 8, 1940, on the
Columbia Broadcasting System. On 21 May 2023,
BBC Radio 3 broadcast
The Women of Troy, a "contemporary set re-imagining" of Euripides' play by Linda Marshall Griffiths directed by Nadia Molinari, with
Maxine Peake as Hecuba, Sade Malone as Cassandra,
Anneika Rose as Andromache and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu as Helen. In this version, "the chorus of women are led by a female journalist Sappho
(played by Christine Bottomley) and the other voices are those of the women all over the city who are recording and broadcasting their testimonies on social media so that the world can witness what is happening to them."
Film The Mexican film
Las Troyanas (1963) directed by
Sergio Véjar, adapted by writer Miguel Angel Garibay and Véjar, is faithful to the Greek text and setting.
Cypriot-Greek director
Michael Cacoyannis used Euripides' play (in the famous
Edith Hamilton translation) as the basis for his 1971 film
The Trojan Women. The movie starred American actress
Katharine Hepburn as Hecuba, British actors
Vanessa Redgrave as Andromache and
Brian Blessed as Talthybius,
French-Canadian actress
Geneviève Bujold as Cassandra, Greek actress
Irene Papas as Helen, and
Northern Ireland-born
Patrick Magee as Menelaus.
Novel Sheri Tepper wove
The Trojan Women into her 1988
feminist science fiction novel ''
The Gate to Women's Country''.
Stage A 1905 stage version, translated by
Gilbert Murray, starred
Gertrude Kingston as
Helen and
Ada Ferrar as Athena at the
Royal Court Theatre in London. The French public intellectual
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a version of
The Trojan Women (
Les Troyennes) in 1965. Israeli playwright
Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) wrote his own version of the play,
The Lost Women of Troy, adding more disturbing scenes and scatological details. In 1974, Ellen Stewart, founder of
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in
New York City, presented
The Trojan Women as the last fragment of a trilogy (which included
Medea and
Electra). With staging by Romanian-born theatre director Andrei Serban and music by American composer Elizabeth Swados, this production went on to tour more than 30 countries over the course of 40 years. Since 2014, The Trojan Women Project has been sharing this production with diverse communities that now include Guatemala, Cambodia and
Kosovo.
Charles L. Mee adapted
The Trojan Women in 1994 to have a more modern, updated outlook on war. He included original interviews with
Holocaust and
Hiroshima survivors. His play is called
Trojan Women: A Love Story. In 2000, the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival produced the play in modern costumes and props, with the Greek soldiers wearing
camouflage and carrying
assault rifles.
David Stuttard’s 2001 adaptation,
Trojan Women, written in the aftermath of the
September 11 attacks, toured widely within the UK and was staged internationally. In an attempt to reposition
The Trojan Women as the third play of a trilogy, Stuttard then reconstructed Euripides' lost
Alexandros and
Palamedes (in 2005 and 2006 respectively), to form a "Trojan Trilogy", which was performed in readings at the
British Museum and
Tristan Bates Theatre (2007), and Europe House (2012) in
London. He also wrote a version of the
satyr play Sisyphus (2008) to round off Euripides' original trilogy.
Femi Osofisan's 2004 play
Women of Owu sets the story in 1821, after the conquest of the
Owu kingdom by a coalition of other
West African states. Although it is set in 19th century Africa, Osofisan has said that the play was also inspired by the
2003 invasion of Iraq by the U.S.-led coalition. at the
ARK Theatre Company (2003)
Brad Mays directed a
multimedia production for the
ARK Theatre Company in
Los Angeles in 2003. The play opened with a faux
CNN TV news report intended to echo the then-current
war in Iraq. A documentary film was made of the production, released in 2004.
The Women of Troy, directed by
Katie Mitchell, was performed at the
National Theatre in London in 2007/08. The cast included
Kate Duchêne as Hecuba, Sinead Matthews as Cassandra and
Anastasia Hille as Andromache.
The Trojan Women, directed by
Marti Maraden, was performed at the
Stratford Festival at the
Tom Patterson Theatre in
Stratford, Ontario, Canada, from 14 May to 5 October 2008 with Canadian actress
Martha Henry as Hecuba. Christine Evans reworked and modernised the
Trojan Women story in her 2009 play
Trojan Barbie.
Trojan Barbie is a
postmodern updating, which blends the modern and ancient worlds, as contemporary London doll repair shop owner Lotte is pulled into a Trojan women's prison camp that is located in both ancient Troy and the modern Middle East. In 2011,
Anne Bogart's
SITI Company premiered
Trojan Women (After Euripides) at Getty Villa before touring the production. In 2016, Zoe Lafferty's version of the play,
Queens of Syria, in Arabic with English subtitles, was put on by the
Young Vic before touring Britain. In 2021,
Anne Carson, the experimental poet, translator, and classicist, published her translation as
Trojan Women: A Comic with illustrations by
Rosanna Bruno, a portion of which was excerpted earlier that year in the 236th issue of the
Paris Review. Carson's vision was realised by Bruno to stage the production of a tragedy in the form of a "comic," or
graphic novel with the characters cast as uncanny figures, such as
Hekabe as an old, once-regal dog, the goddess
Athena as a pair of overalls wearing an owl mask, and the murdered baby
Astyanax (last heir to the Trojan throne) as a
poplar tree sapling. In March 2023 a production of
Women of Troy directed by
Ben Winspear and starring his wife actor-producer
Marta Dusseldorp was staged at the
10 Days on the Island festival in
Tasmania, Australia. Poetry by Iranian-Kurdish refugee
Behrouz Boochani, who was for many years detained by the Australian Government in
Manus Island detention centre, was set to music composed by
Katie Noonan and performed by a chorus of Tasmanian women and girls, interspersed with the text of the play.
Music Theater On July 7, 1986, the opera,
Troades, with a libretto by conductor
Gerd Albrecht and composer
Aribert Reimann based on the German translation by
Franz Werfel, the author of
The Song of Bernadette, opened the 1986 Munich Opera Festival. It had been commissioned by the
Bavarian State Opera, which mounted the production in the National Theater Munich. ==Translations==