<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><font size="2">Classic Theater Guild is holding <font size="2">auditions</font> for <font size="2">Trojan</font> woman 's part of Helen of troy <font size="2">Monday</font> <font size="2">January</font> 6th at 7pm at 137 state st in <font size="2">Schenectady NY directed by <font size="2">Kat</font> Broudus</font> </font><br>
<font size="2">Trojan Woman by </font>Euripides<br>
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<div>Euripides's play follows the fates of the women of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>
after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their
remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it
begins first with the gods <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_the_Lesser" title="Ajax the Lesser">Ajax the Lesser</a> for raping <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra" title="Cassandra">Cassandra</a>,
the eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, after dragging her
from a statue of Athena. What follows shows how much the Trojan women
have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out
additional deaths and divide their shares of women.</div>
<div>The Greek herald <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talthybius" title="Talthybius">Talthybius</a>
arrives to tell the dethroned queen Hecuba what will befall her and her
children. Hecuba will be taken away with the Greek general <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a>, and Cassandra is destined to become the conquering general Agamemnon's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concubinage" title="Concubinage">concubine</a>.</div>
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Cassandra, who has been driven partially mad due to a curse by which
she can see the future but will never be believed when she warns others,
is morbidly delighted by this news: she sees that when they arrive in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos" title="Argos">Argos</a>, her new master's embittered wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytemnestra" title="Clytemnestra">Clytemnestra</a>
will kill both her and her new master. However, because of the curse,
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<div>The widowed princess <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromache" title="Andromache">Andromache</a> arrives and Hecuba learns from her that her youngest daughter, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyxena" title="Polyxena">Polyxena</a>, has been killed as a sacrifice at the tomb of the Greek warrior <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a>.</div>
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<div>Andromache's lot is to be the concubine of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a>' son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoptolemus" title="Neoptolemus">Neoptolemus</a> and more horrible news for the royal family is yet to come: Talthybius reluctantly informs her that her baby son, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astyanax" title="Astyanax">Astyanax</a>,
has been condemned to die. The Greek leaders are afraid that the boy
will grow up to avenge his father Hector, and rather than take this
chance, they plan to throw him off from the battlements of Troy to his
death.</div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen</a>, though not one of the Trojan women, is supposed to suffer greatly as well: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaus" title="Menelaus">Menelaus</a>
arrives to take her back to Greece with him where a death sentence
awaits her. Helen begs/seduces her husband to spare her life and he
remains resolved to kill her, but the audience watching the play knows
that he will let her live and take her back. Not only is it revealed at
the end of the play that she lives, but also in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a> Telemachus will learn how Helen's legendary beauty wins her a reprieve.</div>
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<div>In the end, Talthybius returns carrying with him the body of little Astyanax on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector" title="Hector">Hector</a>'s
shield. Andromache's wish had been to bury her child herself,
performing the proper rituals according to Trojan ways, but her ship had
already departed. Talthybius gives the corpse to Hecuba, who prepares
the body of her grandson for burial before they are finally taken off
with Odysseus.</div>
<div>Throughout the play, many of the Trojan women lament the loss of the
land that reared them. Hecuba in particular lets it be known that Troy
had been her home for her entire life, only to see herself as an old
grandmother watching the burning of Troy, the death of her husband, her
children, and her grandchildren before she will be taken as a slave to
Odysseus.</div>
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<div><font size="2">production dates feb 28- march 9th for information respond to katbroadus@gmail.com, </font><br>
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