SITI is committed to providing a place where the interaction of art, artists, audiences, and ideas inspire the possibility for change, optimism, and hope. SITI Company, one of the country’s leading theater ensembles, brings one of the greatest of all anti-war dramas in this new production, which premiered at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles last year.

The Trojan Women, by the Greek playwright Euripides, was first performed over 2,400 years ago during the Peloponnesian War and is often considered a commentary on the barbaric behavior of the Athenians toward the women and children of the people they subjugated. In the ruins of their burning city, the royal women of Troy – still mourning the slaughter of their husbands and sons – await enslavement and exile. The play is a timeless meditation on the moments of individual choice that separate death and life, despair and hope, future and past. This adaptation by Jocelyn Clarke isn’t a literal staging of the ancient Greek play, but uses Euripides’ text as a framework, imbuing his characters with the sensibilities and souls of 21st-century individuals. Anne Bogart, the founder of SITI Company and interviewer of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson for last year’s Einstein on the Beach Penny Stamps lecture, directs.