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Trojan Barbie
[29658]

$8.95

ISBN 978-0-573-69867-5

Christine Evans

Drama

4m, 7f

A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides' Trojan Women.

Trojan Barbie is the winner of the 2007 Jane Chambers Award, the Playwrights First "Plays for the 21st Century" Award, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, 2009.

Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides’ Trojan Women.

Lotte Jones, a doll repair expert, needs a vacation. She books herself on a cultural tour for singles and travels with them to modern-day Troy, where she finds more of a change of scene than she’d bargained for— she's in the midst of an attack by the Greek army threatening to destroy the last fragments of a mighty civilization. When the camp is torched, the women are enslaved and Lotte is rescued by the British Embassy. Her life returns to normal — until a revenge-obsessed Hecuba claws her way up through the centuries into Lotte's doll shop, in search of her murdered children's bodies.

Part contemporary drama, part homage to Euripides’ Trojan Women, Trojan Barbie recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. Poetic, compassionate, and tinged with great warmth and humor, Trojan Barbie is an epic war story with a most unlikely heroine, who always looks on the bright side even as past and present collide about her.

“Playwright Christine Evans melds contemporary art and culture with an ancient, mythical war in her explosive new work, Trojan Barbie...an imaginative, time-warped view of the ongoing challenges women have faced since foreign conflict first raged thousands of years ago.” —Talkin’ Broadway

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Character Descriptions:
The Trojans:
HECUBA – Queen of Trojans; widow of Priam.
POLLY X – Hecuba’s youngest daughter, age 15.
CASSANDRA – Hecuba’s prescient daughter; late teens.
ANDROMACHE – Hecuba’s daughter-in-law; Hector’s widow; early 30s.
CLEA – Woman in the camp; CHORUS. Age can be flexibly cast.
ESME – Woman in the camp; CHORUS. Age can be flexibly cast.

The Others:
HELEN – The face that launched, etc. Ageless.
LOTTE – An English tourist and doll repair expert. Age 35-50.
MICA – Camp guard; also assigned to local spin. 30s.
JORGE –Soldier from the conquering army. 20s. Latino.
MAX – Soldier from the conquering army. 20s. African-American.
MENELAUS – Helen’s slighted husband; led the army that destroyed Troy. 30s or 40s.
CLIVE – Lotte’s fantasy partner (actually a waiter.) Ageless and perfect.
OFFICER IN BLUE – Deus Ex Machina from the conquering army.
TALTHYBIUS – Diplomatic African gentleman; messenger from the conquering army. Age can be flexibly cast.

Note on double casting:
The roles of MENELAUS, CLIVE and OFFICER IN BLUE may be played by the same actor. At the director’s discretion, the same actor may also join the action as a SOLDIER (without lines) in Scenes Eleven and Fourteen. If necessary, MAX and TALTHYBIUS may also be double-cast, but if resources permit, it’s preferable to cast these as stand-alone roles.

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