Andròmaca

This version of Andromache is not merely an adaptation of Euripides’ play; the production focuses, above all, on the conflict that has raged for centuries between the two sides of the Mediterranean. Whilst in the classical tragedy the warring factions are Greece and Troy, in this version the conflict is between East and West, Europe and Islam, us and them. The young French director Jean-Christophe Saïs turns his creative genius on the interplay between attraction and rejection, fascination and incomprehension in a production of Andromache that brings the myth up to date, accentuating differences and emphasising conflicts in order to seek ways of overcoming them. In a cast led by the actress Hala Omran, the Greeks speak in French and the Trojans in Arabic.