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After Troy
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Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief… Four exhausted soldiers who hate each other's guts… A King who falls for a girl so mad she can see the audience… A teenage princess dreaming of the Underworld… And a lonely man of conscience trying to get it all down on paper… Award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell rips up two Greek tragedies and makes a modern play from the fragments. A witty and passionate retelling of Euripides' Women Of Troy and Hecuba, After Troy exposes the cruelties of war both then and now.
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ACT THREE
The cave. HECUBA, POLYXENA and CASSANDRA have made blindfolds from their clothes, and are moving in patterns as they sing, mapping out Troy in their minds.
| HECUBA | Where Sundial Gate is found at one |
| POLYXENA | For Crystal Square you make a turn |
| HECUBA | At six there is a lemon grove |
| CASSANDRA | At nine there is a lady's grave |
| POLYXENA | At ten there is a tent of gold |
| HECUBA | There the silk is bought and sold |
| POLYXENA | The trees make patterns on the walls |
| CASSANDRA | At seventeen high waterfalls |
| Are heard again – but are not seen | |
| POLYXENA | Until – the statues at nineteen! |
| HECUBA | Where the right turn will bring you straight |
| POLYXENA | Down Sugar Street – to Sundial Gate! |
They celebrate having mapped this out, and take off their blindfolds – KRATOS brings ANDROMACHE through the light entrance: she has seen her son is alive. KRATOS watches the dance with suspicion, and withdraws. The WOMEN are joyful.
| ANDROMACHE | It's wrong, it's not a right turn it's a left turn. |
| HECUBA | Coming down the slope it's a right turn. |
| POLYXENA | From the olive grove it's a left turn! |
| ANDROMACHE | But of course |
| you're coming from the grove, what do we know of Polly's private Troy? Nothing at all! | |
| The cloisters turn the air to green – | |
| POLYX/ANDRO | Do what you can, you can't be seen! |
| ANDROMACHE | You know those lines so well! |
| POLYXENA | I do by heart! |
| Did you see Astyanax? | |
| ANDROMACHE | He's so grown-up |
| he didn't even cry, he didn't need to, | |
| I cried enough for both of us – | |
| HECUBA | Where is he? |
| ANDROMACHE | I'll see him again soon, the man assured me – |
| POLYXENA | You'll have to be together for the journey. |
| ANDROMACHE | He's grown, he's so much taller! …what journey. |
POLYXENA puts her hand to her mouth. CASSANDRA puts her arm around ANDROMACHE, who brushes it off. CASSANDRA goes and sits apart.
| ANDROMACHE | What journey, Hecuba? |
| POLYXENA | It's not a secret – |
| is it, mother? Was it? | |
| ANDROMACHE | What journey, Hecuba? |
| HECUBA | Not a secret, |
| not a truth, and not a journey. | |
| ANDROMACHE | What journey? |
| POLYXENA | He told us, him who brought you, who was here to assist with preparations. For – a journey. |
| HECUBA | They threaten us with lies. |
| ANDROMACHE | You mean – to Greece? |
| HECUBA | They are terrified, I see it in their faces, the sea is flat as gold, they are deserted by Those who hold us dear, so they threaten us with lies – |
| ANDROMACHE | What is she saying? |
| POLYXENA | Yes, to Greece, |
| but we're remembering everything, aren't we, mother, so we'll build a whole new Troy wherever the Greeks might take us. | |
| HECUBA | Troy is here, |
| daughter, here. | |
| POLYXENA | We'll build a whole new Troy |
| among the Greeks! | |
| ANDROMACHE | My darling is alive, |
| we're happy, we'll play hide-and-seek in Hades. |
TALTHYBIUS comes through the light entrance.
| TALTHYBIUS | Beautiful… I heard you at your dancing. |
| It's good to be, it's very – to be dancing. |
TALTHYBIUS...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Characters
- ACT ONE
- ACT TWO
- ACT THREE
- ACT FOUR
- ACT FIVE