Greek Theatre Now today announced its season 2026 production – Euripides’ The Trojan Women.
GTN will perform the play in Canberra, ACT, 1-6 April, the Easter week and long weekend, and in Perth, Western Australia, 26-28 September, the King’s Birthday long weekend.
Tickets will go on sale before the end of 2025. Season 2025 was sold out.
“The Trojan Women is about the impact of war on women and children,” said Greek Theatre Now artistic director and producer Michael J Smith.
“It’s Euripides’ powerful anti-war statement, written and premiered in Athens in 415 BC during the brutal 27-year Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
“It’s about what happens to women and children on the losing side of a war. Written 2500 years ago, it’s very relevant given the atrocities occurring in the world today.”
Director
Cate Clelland, a former Head of Drama at the Australian National University in Canberra and one of Australia’s most experienced ancient Greek theatre directors, returns to direct the play, having directed Greek Theatre Now’s first production, Sophocles’ Antigone at the Burbidge Amphitheatre, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, in April 2025.
“When we admire Euripides’ sympathetic and complex characterisation of women, often at the centre of his plays, we should also remember that his empathetic and deeply moving depiction of the defeated women of Troy is also a portrayal of the enemy.”
Canberra actor, writer and choreographer Lachlan Ruffy is Assistant Director.
Advisers
Emeritus Professor of Classics at The Australian National University Elizabeth Minchin is Special Adviser to Greek Theatre Now.
Dr Peter Londey, an ancient Greece, military and war historian, is Special Adviser to Greek Theatre Now for this production. Dr Londey was for 17 years an historian at the Australian War Memorial.
Michael J Smith is the company Artistic Director and Producer.
Auditions are 18-19 October 2025 at Tooms Place, Lyons (Scout Hall), Canberra. Auditions information and bookings here.
