Women Of Troy

Ali Sawani
February 17, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Features

The school theatre department is performing at zone competition for the UIL one-act on March 24. The school is hosting the competition as it has been doing for the last couple of years. They will be going up against the same schools they were last year, by sheer chance, which includes Plano West, Marcus and Keller.

The department will be performing an original play called Women of Troy which is an adaptation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women and Hecuba which were two different plays about the same subject. The script being used was written by theatre director Gavin Mundy. It takes place the morning after the Trojan War when all the Trojan men are dead and only the women remain, waiting to find out what’s going to become of them. The play will be performed by a cast of 15 characters, eight of which are main characters and the rest make up the chorus. The play includes two characters from Hecuba who were both not in The Trojan Women.

The cast is still currently going through table reads with some preliminary acting rehearsals but they are excited and confident for the competition.

“This sort of thing is very unpredictable,” senior cast member Kent Van Dover said. “I think we have a strong cast and I think it’s a good show so I think we have a good chance of progressing.”

However they all know that their competition will also be trying to do their absolute best and they cannot base their success on the opinion of the lone judge who decides the winner. Even if that slips their mind, their theatre director will not let them forget completely.

“I tell the students not to worry about the competitive part because you just never know,” Mundy said. “It’s one person’s opinion and you never know from year to year what a judge is going to think and what other schools are going to do.”

The school was victorious at zone last year and has a good tradition of doing well in one-act which Mundy says he thinks the students take very seriously. He is expecting the best possible production to be put on, identical to every show put on, and the students share those goals.

“I expect it to be the best ever,” Kent said.