Trojans Community Drama Workshops and Tour

We're delighted to announce that we are starting work on a brand new project - a projected tour of a brand new play with community drama workshops in each location.

We will be creating a brand new production of Euripides’ great anti-war tragedy, The Trojan Women, with a cast of refugees and host community members – including a core of those who have been professional actors in their own countries.

We intend to tour this production and the accompanying drama workshops round the UK for refugees and host community members.

Alongside the brand new adaptation, we will be running a six weeks of multi-lingual weekly drama workshops with refugees and host community members in different regions of the country.

We're just putting together the three month pilot project at the moment - we're starting in London, W10, and partnering with the brilliant Dalgarno Trust.

So far we've raised £5,600 of the £32,000 we need for the pilot project. Any donations welcome!

More to come soon....

'En-Scripted'

The Trojan Women Project is embarking on an immensely exciting new black comedy; 'En-Scripted' (working title). The black comedy will be about the challenges of being a Syrian Refugee in the context of community drama projects in the times of Covid-era, and the irony of fleeing a police state only to find yourself locked down in Glasgow.

The show will chart nine months of drama workshops (initially online) whilst the obvious roadblocks such as problems with digital technology, remote participation and language barriers interfere with progress.

'En-Scripted' will also aim to highlight the diffculties of being internationally serparated from one's family during this pandemic. Many of the show's Syrian writers and performers still have family stuck in Syria, where Covid has run riot, and so the show will include Zoom scenes with family members.

'En-Scripted' will be co-written and performed by a cast of Glasgow-based Syrian refugees, building on the successes of the 2018/19 drama workshops held by The Trojan Women Project and the Edinburgh Festival 2019 show 'The Trojan'.

The show will be digitally available once complete, in both Arabic and English (with subtitles), but in fact the overarching aim for the project is to use these workshops as a rehearsal process for a stage show to perform at the Pleasance in Edinburgh come the summer of 2021.

#Edinburghfestival Here we come!

The Syrian cast of #Thetrojans came to #Edinburgh for a press photo call on #CaltonHill. It's to publicise our performance on 7th August at the #EICC with #Pleasance. We're trying to raise another £25k on top of the £185 we've raised already to run this production for a year.

STV film crew and 12 photographers turned up, including #thetimes #dailymail #Scotsman #edinburghreporter #EveningNews, all organised by wonderful #martinhunt of #tartansilkpr. The Syrians were a bit late getting over from Glasgow, and at one point the photographer:syrian ratio was 12:0 which was a bit worrying. But the pix were fab and ran in lots of papers. We had slots on the 6pm and 10.00 pm news.

we all then went for lunch at #Beirut, a Lebanese restaurant up by #Edinburghuniversity. Food was delicious.

After lunch we all went to #edinburghcastle. The views were fabulous and we saw the changing of the guard. I hadn't been since I was 10. It's amazing how having new friends makes you look at things you take for granted in a different way.

Guarding Edinburgh Castle

#martinhunt of #tartansilkpr and the photographers waiting on #caltonhill for the #syrian cast of #thetrojans

The cast of #thetrojans eating lunch at #beirut restaurant