The Trojan Women

TO THINK THAT EVERY DAY I GET TO BE FORGIVEN FOR MISDEMEANOURS I DON’T EVEN KNOW I AM COMMITTING, THAT IS WHAT HEAVEN IS.

Wringing Metamorphosis performed a three-night run of our latest creation at Cambridge Fitzpatrick Hall, in March 2022. Blue Pieta and Charis Taplin were the choreographers, writers and dancers

Branches grow from sleeves, the mafia attend a crucifixion, a horse births human bodies. In this adaptation of Euripides we embody the Trojan Women, exploring displacement, ancestry and prophecy. Approaching text, choreography, soundscape and puppetry through the framework of the four elements, and the four corners of a single room, the disparate stories of the women merge into a single substance. We mediate the hinterland between ancient mythology and personal memory. Driven by the force of Dionysian tragedy, creation and destruction, warfare is transmuted by forgiveness.Each scene in the play was re-interpreted with the mythopoetic memory of the dancers, we began by ascribing scenes to scenes from within. And here we are again in that ‘hole’ inside ourselves, where we once saw the emptiness that turned into the patterned glow of the weeping angel, teaching us ‘the storm will protect you, the shipwreck is the gift’