International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama in Cyprus. THE TROJAN WOMEN by Euripides

Euripides’ *The Trojan Women*, directed by Carlota Ferrer and produced by Come y Calla Productions in collaboration with the Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival, opens this year’s Festival programme. The acclaimed actress Isabel Ordaz stars as Hecuba, supported by a dynamic ensemble of actors.

After the fall of Troy, the women of the once-glorious city await the fate that the winners have for them: slavery, exile, violence. Amidst a landscape of ruin, the captive Trojan women and their queen, Hecuba, become bearers of a memory that refuses to fade. Pain leads not only to loss, but also to a silent resistance against oblivion.

The Spanish production, which premiered in 2025 at the Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival to critical and audience acclaim, transforms Euripides’ tragedy into a contemporary theatrical experience, where discourse coexists with physicality, music, movement, and visual compositions. Through a dense web of symbolism, projections, and soundscapes, the performance highlights the violence of war and its consequences on the bodies and lives of the defeated, particularly women, as the primary bearers of memory and trauma.

The Trojan Women does not merely recount a story of defeat. It constructs a theatrical landscape of mourning that becomes testimony – an enduring play that, while maintaining its poetic intensity, engages with the modern world, where the violence of war is repeated and human cost remains undiminished.

• WITH ENGLISH AND GREEK SURTITLES
• SUITABLE FOR AGES 12+
• DURATION: 110 MINUTES