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Part of the book: Engaging with Troy

Edited by Francesca Rayner and Janice Valls-Russell

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Abstract.  It is possible to tell the story of the Trojan War without any of its familiar protagonists. Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City (2022-23) deployed ‘twenty-eight performers spread throughout 100,000 square feet of performance space’, but these dancers did not include Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Paris, Menelaus, or Helen — as indeed a number of Greek plays set around the story of the War do not. In such a telling, the city of Troy itself emerges as the central character.

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