Syria’s Trojan Women are staying put. Journalist Charlotte Eagar is part of a team working with a group of refugees in the country on a production of Euripides’s tragedy but after initial success bureaucracy may be standing in the way. The cast was set to fly to the US to perform but their visa applications were rejected this week.
“They were so excited,” Eagar explains. “They were going to have tours of New York, visit Washington to meet with policy-makers. It’s such a shame that these women who have never travelled have been disappointed.”
The show, however, must go on. The production will be live-streamed from a theatre in Oman before production begins on a film version. “We’re still looking for a Poseidon,” Eagar says. “We want him to be almost like an admiral, someone grizzled, in their fifties, with a social conscience.”
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