“Helen speaks rather prophetically to our moment in history, lived in the wake of a conflict fought over non-existent WMDs, in an age where image and reality are increasingly divorced from one another. The Stork deserves praise for putting it on.”
“The poetry is heady and breathtaking.”
Chris Boyd, The Australian, October 2011
HELEN by Euripides
Oct 26 – Nov 13
Directed by Greg Carroll Version by Frank McGuinness Designed by Peter Corrigan
Starring Wendy Bos, Adriana Bonaccurso & Nicholas Colla
HELEN, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London 2009:
“One of the most topical and engaging plays on the London stage. HELEN is the jewel in the Globe’s crown this season”
The Telegraph.
“We fought the Trojan War for nothing?” Grecian Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, abducted by the Trojan prince, Paris. Helen, for whom the Trojan War was so bloodily fought, in which thousands died . Everyone knows the story. That whore, Helen, was the cause of the War.
Or was she?
What if it were not true, had never been true, was invented by ancient spin doctors? In a brilliantly daring insight into the nature of War, Euripides questions why men are made heroes by their war-like deeds and why lies of war persist down through the ages.
In this play, HELEN, he subverts one of the most famous myths of ancient times and questions long held beliefs about men, women and war.
Euripides’s play is based on a dazzling and outrageous conceit – Helen never actually went to Troy with Paris, never betrayed her husband, Menalaus,, What the Greeks saw walking on the battlements of Troy, was a phantasm, a ghost, an illusion and they called it Helen.
The greatest anti-war playwright of ancient Greece, Euripides was writing in 412 BC in what was a time of global war and the disintegration of the Athenian empire. Euripides presents in HELEN a passionate, heroic woman set adrift by malevolent gods in a chaotic, meaningless universe.
From the extraordinarily successful team that brought you the The Red & The Black and The Lover, director Greg Carroll, designer Peter Corrigan – comes a must see production of Euripides’ magnificently subversive tour de force brought to the Australian stage for the first time.
“A genre-busting drama of great panache” The Daily Telegraph
SEASON: Oct/Nov
Wednesday 26 October @8pm – Sunday 13 November @3pm
Tickets $29.50 / $27.50 / $19.50
The Alliance Française, 51 Grey Street, St Kilda
Special Thursday treats: Complimentary drinks and chat with the cast after the show.
ONLINE TICKET BOOKINGS
Tickets for all Stork Theatre productions can be pre-purchased via this website. Our online bookings are processed through www.trybooking.com. Payment is via credit card.
Click here for secure and easy bookings
Directed by Greg Carroll Version by Frank McGuinness Designed by Peter Corrigan
Starring Wendy Bos, Adriana Bonaccurso & Nicholas Colla
Starring Wendy Bos, Adriana Bonaccurso & Nicholas Colla
“One of the most topical and engaging plays on the London stage. HELEN is the jewel in the Globe’s crown this season”
The Telegraph.“We fought the Trojan War for nothing?” Grecian Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, abducted by the Trojan prince, Paris. Helen, for whom the Trojan War was so bloodily fought, in which thousands died . Everyone knows the story. That whore, Helen, was the cause of the War.
Or was she?
What if it were not true, had never been true, was invented by ancient spin doctors? In a brilliantly daring insight into the nature of War, Euripides questions why men are made heroes by their war-like deeds and why lies of war persist down through the ages.
In this play, HELEN, he subverts one of the most famous myths of ancient times and questions long held beliefs about men, women and war.
Euripides’s play is based on a dazzling and outrageous conceit – Helen never actually went to Troy with Paris, never betrayed her husband, Menalaus,, What the Greeks saw walking on the battlements of Troy, was a phantasm, a ghost, an illusion and they called it Helen.
The greatest anti-war playwright of ancient Greece, Euripides was writing in 412 BC in what was a time of global war and the disintegration of the Athenian empire. Euripides presents in HELEN a passionate, heroic woman set adrift by malevolent gods in a chaotic, meaningless universe.
From the extraordinarily successful team that brought you the The Red & The Black and The Lover, director Greg Carroll, designer Peter Corrigan – comes a must see production of Euripides’ magnificently subversive tour de force brought to the Australian stage for the first time.
SEASON: Oct/Nov
Wednesday 26 October @8pm – Sunday 13 November @3pm
Tickets $29.50 / $27.50 / $19.50
The Alliance Française, 51 Grey Street, St Kilda
Special Thursday treats: Complimentary drinks and chat with the cast after the show.
ONLINE TICKET BOOKINGS
Tickets for all Stork Theatre productions can be pre-purchased via this website. Our online bookings are processed through www.trybooking.com. Payment is via credit card.
Click here for secure and easy bookings
Bookings close at 6pm weekdays on the day of the show and 1pm for the Sunday matinee.
PHONE BOOKINGS
The Stork Theatre booking line is (03) 9410 0295.
Bookings for Stork Theatre productions can be made by phone and paid for in cash on arrival.
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STORK THEATRE SEASON 2011:
ON WOMEN
3200 years since Helen of Troy’s face launched 1000 ships, a devastating war, sent Iphigenia to be slaughtered at the altar and Clytemnestra to murder a husband;
133 years since Anna Karenina threw herself under a train and left Tolstoy’s readers begging him to somehow undo her intolerable death;
25 years since Simone de Beauvoir, a woman whose writings changed the Western world, died, bleakly aware that her philosophy had failed her emotions.
Each was a force incarnate and ultimately paid the highest price to be the agent of her own destiny. Hedonistic, dangerous and sometimes wicked, their names have never been lost because of the urgency of the single question that their destinies invoke:
is the game worth the candle?
In this centenary of International Women’s Year, the Stork Theatre asked our celebrated writers to present these iconic women on stage in three exciting new productions for our very special and discerning audiences.
“More interesting are the ways in which literature and theatre enrich each other. Since its inception, The Stork Theatre has addressed the relationship between these two forms directly… its production of Stendhal’s The Red & the Black is a theatrical triumph.” The Age 2010
“For The Stork Theatre, power, love, war and betrayal are all grist to the mill. Can murder be justified?Does rationalism lead to pitilessness? The company relishes an engagement with the big questions of philosophy and has built an audience that is unafraid to tackle them” The Australian, on War & Peace, 2010
