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Title: About Suffering They Were Never Wrong ... (The Trojan Women) 
- HWS Rembiko
4 silver bats

10 08 07 - A Rembiko (USA) High School project from California on its
7th biennial visit to the Fringe. Rembiko are presenting an ambitious
program of several shows including this one, based on Euripides, 'The
Trojan Women.' With a beautiful tableau opening, this is a Greek 
tragedy with an American twang but the weeping and wailing is 
timeless! Zoe Johnson (Cassandra) emerges as a promising artist and
becomes the focus of the show with a powerful singing talent whose 
appearances onstage the audience I came to quite look forward to. Its
the operatic version of how the Greeks took Troy and divided up its 
spoils including the women, to reap their vengeance. Carolyn Berliner's
performance as Hectors wife Andromache, was also well received by an 
appreciative audience. The show was layered in many tortured female
expressions, much huddling and scenes of women comforting each other 
and many members of the audience seemed genuinely moved as the grim 
tale progressed. With the bodies piling up on stage towards the end, 
the score seemed a little 'too happy' for such a dark tale though the 
musicianship throughout was proficient, if lacking in flair.

by John Vassallo