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Ali’s Take: The women of Troy have undergone so much: abuse, capture, torture, and the death of loved ones, not to mention that tough little tiff called The Trojan War. Why, then, must they also take on the gargantuan task of hurling through time to endure every hardship that womankind has ever suffered throughout human history?
This question begs to be answered during Pallas Theatre Collective ‘s new musical The Many Women of Troy drags as the five female cast members jump from one century to another. No tragedy is left unexploited as Cassandra, played by Maggie Donovan , leads the pack of Trojan women from Columbine to the Willamite War of Ireland to the home of a McCarthy Era housewife to Ancient Rome to a jousting tournament in Medieval times to Auschwitz to… you get the point.
The musical score, composed by Brian Allan Hobbs and performed live by a three-piece band, has its bright moments, such as the melodic dirge “The Battle of Boyne” or the clever vaudeville number “Start a Little War,” performed by the saucy Ellis Greer playing Helen of Troy.
Yet overall the music, much like the story, lacks a unifying thread. The two main numbers, “Last Night” and “So Many Women,” reprised throughout the show, share a similar style to many of the songs: simplistic, maudlin and disjointed. The far-fetched premise of Many Women Hecuba, her daughters Cassandra and Polyxena, her daughter-in-law Andromache, and Helen of Troy. In this version, Cassandra’s prophetic abilities allow her to travel through time, along with the other women, and witness the cyclical mistakes of history. The other women fall into roles that embody female suffering: the weary mother, the abandoned wife, the overshadowed youngest daughter. But Cassandra remains lucid through it all as our narrator, commenting in vain on the tragedy of it all.
The Many Women of Troy begs its audience to respect it as a tragedy, but with its amorphous staging, shoddy design and copious instances of melodrama to the point of histrionics, we simply can’t. There are few fine acting moments, but most of them belong to Donovan or to the actress playing Hecuba, Charlotte Di Gregorio , who addresses the audience from time to time through heartfelt monologues.
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Ali's Take: The women of Troy have undergone so much: abuse, capture, torture, and the death of loved ones, not to mention that tough little tiff called The Trojan War. Why, then, must they also take on the gargantuan task of hurling through time to
Days after the end of the decade-long Trojan war, king Odysseus of Ithaca is en route to his homeland when his ship is waylaid by violent storms conjured up by his staunch enemy, Poseidon, god of the seas. Forced to dock at an unknown island,
Millar, as you probably know, can be an absolute trojan in the service of a team-mate, as he was for Thor Hushovd in the first week of this Tour. I remember standing on the slopes of the climb to Verbier in 09, seeing Garmin and Millar on the front,
It's almost as if a Trojan horse was being placed right at the centre of the €'s weakest point, eh? Greece has a total debt of roughly 330 billion euros (or US $473 billion).[New York Times] So how did this debt get out of control? As it turned out,
In this sense, perhaps Annie Jacobsen may have been given a Trojan horse by the Secret-Keepers. If you take the classic Crashed ET-UFO explanation for Roswell and compare it to the Stalin Saucer explanation from Annie Jacobsen's book,
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The Trojan Horse is pure Mythology, but that is something deep and not superficial, but there are many examples of War machines in the history of ancient and modern warfare. But the idea that the Trojan Horse could exist as a means of tricking a city into the loss of a war as is portrayed in the Epics is ludicrous. Can you imagine bringing something like that in which had forty men inside (the traditional number). Just the weight of the thing in disproportion to its building materials, presumably wood is enough to bring suspicion. And Helen actually spoke to each man in the voice of his wife in order to trick them into revealing themselves, so she had a woman’s intuition of what was inside. First thing that would have happened is that the thing would be dismantled, before it is brought inside the city. So the whole idea that people would bring it inside willingly without checking it our, without posting a guard on it, even if there was a man who had given lie to what caused the horse to be built and given to the Trojans by the, it does not make sense that they were that gullible. But of course people do some very stupid things and so who is to tell. But personally I think it was clearly meant as a joke by the Poet. And it was a joke of a very peculiar kind because it pointed to something much deeper.
In Aristophanes comedies there is a Parabasis which are interludes where the author speaks directly to the audience, mostly to ask them to vote for his play over the others at the competition. Aristophanes is in Plato’s symposium and delivers an important speech about how lovers were glued together at one time being of one body. Plato has an interesting relation with Aristophanes because it was he who wrote the Clouds which was some of the propaganda that was antecedent to Socrates’ execution by his fellow citizens. Aristophanes portrayed Socrates as a natural philosopher, which he was in his youth. So on the one hand Aristophanes can be partially blamed for Socrates death, and on the other hand he is given an important speech in the Symposium. But more importantly many of Plato’s wilder ideas were also portrayed in Aristophanes plays and so they shared many ideas some put forward as if they were serious proposals and the other mean to only be jokes. Thus by adopting the ideas of Aristophanes is warning us not to take the substance of the ideas that are proposed too seriously, because after all they were plagiarizer from comedies. But on the other hand Aristophanes makes the claim in his Parabasis that he is giving the city wisdom. I started reading the plays carefully looking for some hint of wisdom hidden by the bawdy jokes and finally found some in the Birds where Aristophanes offers a alternative theogony to that of Hesiod. In that theogony there is not just one primordial entity, i.e. Gaia but four. And these four are Abyss, Covering, Night, and Chaos. These are all associated with the feminine just as the positive fourfold enunciated by Socrates, and taken up by Heidegger which is Heaven/Earth and Mortal/Immortal. This fourfold is the outward fourfold that describes the world. But the negative fourfold of Aristophanes describes the worlds sources in four female primeval deities. When we reverse these female deities then we get their male equivalents which is much more revealing than the fourfold of Socrates which are Light, Grounding, Uncovering (Alethia) and Order. Once we know about this other positive fourfold which is the reversal of the negative fourfold ascribed to women then we can more deeply appreciate the structure of our worldview. And so this is part of the Wisdom that Aristophanes gives us in his play the Birds. Out of this fourfold arises Eros, and then the Birds, and then the Gods, thus the Birds (according to the Birds) come before the creation of the Gods.
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