Review: The Women of Troy

One the classic Greek tragedies The Women of Troy (sometimes called The Trojan Women) was written almost 2500 years ago; and since then many translations, adaptations, and abridged versions have been produced and performed countless times over, and in many languages.

Methuen Drama offer this ‘student version’ for 2024; with a translation of the script from Don Taylor (first performed at The National Theatre in 2007) and commentary, notes, and other useful materials by Emma Cole.

I myself studied and performed this play as part of my A Level Drama and Theatre (2001/2), and it is indeed still a choice for set text in one current A Level offer – component three in the Eduqas specification. It could however very easily serve as a play to select quality key extracts from for other A Level components, and also features some thought-provoking monologues too.