When a city falls, its people must bear the wreckage. A live news crew will film the destruction but not the aftermath. It does not capture a mother looking for her lost boys, a fallen woman trying to keep up appearances, a young girl’s duty to pay off a bargain she’d never been participant to. They are merely numbers, tallied up figures for the television reports. They are not human. They are mere dolls.
Darkly humorous and epically tragic, Trojan Barbie is an exhilarating play. Placing characters of antiquity within the very real world of a military occupied refugee camp, the play explores how, after over two millennia, we are still no closer to solving the consequences of war and the people it leaves behind. Hecuba, Polyxena, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen of Troy and Lotte of Reading all hurtle towards their fate in this electric modern spectacle about war, its reverberations, and its women. Whether it’s ancient myth or a vivid reality…
Cast
Hecuba – Bethan Davidson
Lotte – Lucy Dickson
Andromache – Kate Marston
Helen of Troy – Rebecca Thomas
Cassandra – Emma Corrin
Polly X – Alice Carlill
Mica – Harrison MacNeil
Menelaus – Will Bishop
Talthybius – Joe Spence
Jorge – Ben Martineau
Max – Ronald Prokes
Clea – Rachel Bircher
Esme – Emma Kemsley-Pein
Zoe – Zoe Barnes
Ayla – Isla Cowan
Production Team
Director – Emma Blacklay-Piech
Producer – Eleanor Mitchell
Assistant Director – Hannah Sands
Movement Director – Rute Costa
Technical Director – Leah Ward
Technical Advisor – Sheanna Patel
Master Carpenter – Peter Griffin
Set Designer – Eleanor Mitchell
Set Consultant – Harry Stockwell
Lighting Designer – Kathryn Dodds
Sound Designer – Emily Galvin
Chief Electrician – Sam Payne
Stage Manager – Saskia Baylis
Deputy Stage Manager – Rose Payne
Assistant Stage Manager – Caitlin Walsh, Issy Houston
Publicity Designer – Lewis Scott
Programme Designer – Lewis Scott
Headshot Photographer – Daniel Karaj
Costume Designer – Amanda Ekström
Set Painter – Anna Hackney, Jen Wardley, Ankita Anirban,Vicky Vanderstichele, Laura Cowan
Executive Delivery Boy – Charlie Gladstone
Photographer – Johannes Hjorth
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