In Hecuba: Why Am I In Your Country?, Palestinian Syrian actor Arwa Omaren combines Euripides’ ‘The Trojan Women’ with her own story of displacement in a powerful solo performance that weaves the words of Euripides’ Hecuba, Queen of Troy, into her own story of a perilous journey from Syria to the UK.
She talks to Kate Saffin about the origins of the work, her process for writing the first draft – completed in 48hrs! And then onto a process of co-writing and development with William Stirling, supported by the Trojan Women Project, to the final play.
