HECUBA

About the show

Hecuba is an ancient Greek tragedy originally written by Euripides around 424 BC. Our version is by Marina Carr. In 2015, our Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman directed Marina Carr's reimagining of the legend of Hecuba in a visceral new play. A searing vision of war, womanhood and courage, inventively told. The play opens at the end of the Trojan War with the city in flames and devastation. Hecuba, the Queen of a defeated Empire, sits on her husband's throne clutching his severed head with the corpses of her sons lying at her feet. Her two daughters and her son Polydorous, who is in hiding, are all she has left in the world.