She traces the history of the revenge tragedy, beginning with the Greeks and progressing through Seneca, Elizabethan and Jacobean England, to the seventeenth century, and finally to modern times, citing the Macedonian film Before the Rain . Hecuba acts like a bitch even there. The set stresses the opposition of male and female. It shows a jutting cliff, with stakes through the end, and in the middle of the stage we see a sharp stake stuck in the sand. We are on the shore at Troy.
Tents are in the background.
Women are the rulers of the interior, men the exterior. One creates life, and the other exploits it. This is a play about women's power. The women show themselves stronger than the Thracian Polymestor, whose race the ancient world equated with brutal strength. In spite of the translation and the direction, through their brilliant art, they show us human passion leading to horrors in this world.