Product Details

• Published on: 1994-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

New as in "not really a translation at all"
I have just returned from a 3 hour performance of Kennelly's "translation" of Euripides' Trojan Women. I teach classical mythology and I gave my students extra credit for attending a local production. I wanted them to see a Greek tragedy on stage and not as dry words on a page. Kennelly's play has no Greek spirit, freely invents incidents, speeches and words, and is mind numbingly boring. Rape, captivity, slavery, death of loved ones, exile, homelessness, loss. Powerful things, but from after hearing them lamented again and again for over 2 hours, in a new-agey way entirely foreign to Greek culture, peppered with the obscenities noted by another reviewer, I felt like I was suffering more than Hecuba and her fellow Trojan Women. I, too, knew sorrow and loss. I wish I had my 3 hours back. This play is NOT Euripides and, viewed on its own merits, is NOT good.