Someday I'll leave Troy
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The Trojan War is one of the most recognizable myths in Western society. It has been explored and reinterpreted by countless artists and continues to be a source of inspiration. This project creates a plan for a series of performances that seek to look at the war itself and our process of reinterpreting it while asking why it holds such a strong grip on artists. By using two different structures of performance it takes both a birds-eye view and a ground-level perspective of the war. In this, we’re able to see how echoes of its themes exist both in the world-shaking events that happen every day and in the smaller battles, we fight in our minds. Ultimately it finds that Troy stands firm because it exists as a war that can never end, but whose end was always perfectly clear.