Hecuba
By: by Marina Carr
Contributors: Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9780822235194
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Drama
Description: Troy has fallen.  It's the end of war and the beginning of something else.  Something worse.  As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made.  Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize.  Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war.  But now another sacrifice is demanded...  In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated?
Notes: First produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, on September 17, 2015.

6 males, 8 women, 3 boys (doubling, flexible casting)