Olivier Winner Maria Friedman Set for Reading of New Musical The Trojan Women | Playbill

Readings and Workshops Olivier Winner Maria Friedman Set for Reading of New Musical The Trojan Women The new work has a libretto by Ellen McLaughlin and music by Sarah Taylor Ellis.
Maria Friedman

Four-time Olivier winner Maria Friedman, who made her Broadway debut in The Woman in White, will star in an industry reading of The Trojan Women August 9 at Dragon Hall in London’s Covent Garden.

An adaptation of Euripides’ Greek tragedy, this new hybrid musical-chamber opera features a libretto by Ellen McLaughlin and music by Sarah Taylor Ellis.

Friedman will star as Hecuba in the Adele Thomas-helmed presentation, with Abiona Omonua (Caroline, or Change) as Helen of Troy, Gweneth-Ann Rand (Porgy and Bess) as Andromache, Sarah Minns (La Voix Humaine) as Cassandra, and Samuel Thomas as Talthybius, plus a chorus featuring Naomi Felix, Yolanda Grant-Thompson, Samantha Houston, Juliette Koch, Lucinda Scott, and Tanisha Spring. The speaking role of Poseidon, God of the Sea, will be played by Fringe First-winning drag king Lucy Jane Parkinson.

Intersectional feminist opera and music theatre company HERA produces; Rodney Bush serves as music director.

Industry members interested in attending should email [email protected].

See What Else Is Scheduled to Perform in London

Take a Look at Eden Espinosa in the Maria Friedman-Helmed Merrily We Roll Along in Boston

 
Recommended Reading:
 X

Blocking belongs
on the stage,
not on websites.

Our website is made possible by
displaying online advertisements to our visitors.

Please consider supporting us by
whitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.
Thank you!