This performance is the result of the integration of traditional laments of Chios Island with excerpts from four tragedies by Euripides (Iphigenia in Aulis, The Trojan Women, Andromache and Helen), whose common denominator is the Trojan War. The core-play, “The Trojan Women” by Euripides, denounces war by demonstrating how it irrevocably injures both parties –winners and defeated– and at the same time deals with the difficult issue of refugees that remains a harsh reality in our days.

Euripides explores how the experience of seeking refuge traumatizes women and how it deliberately selects the female body, because of her multi-faceted nature, as a tool for depicting the devastating impact of war on the human psyche. Assuming various roles in her societal life (mother, wife, virgin or even seen as a prize), a woman functions as a link and preserves social conventions; she is therefore the first one to be hurt and bound to mourn when those collide.