Reinvention Theatre

Hey everyone, here is one example of Reinvented theatre that I have found:

Charles Mee's The Trojan Women: A Love Story - a retelling of Euripedes' The Trojan Women brought into the modern world. It keeps the basic story of Euripedes' story using a Greek Chorus, Dance numbers, TV, bombs and sexual references, with the characters speaking directly to the audience through a microphone for the majority of the piece. The characters plough through their ruined and bombed city without food and water, their children and husbands dead before them. The set is visually bland, but the director's vision comnpensates for this, such as using bags of sugar to represent the babies, and when slaughtered, displaying sugar over the set. A power of love is stressed throughout the play between the women and their soldier husbands, with sources from musical theatre. It is not a political piece of theatre, but a powerful production that explores social foundations of war and questions why men fight.