The Trojan Women
Bramble Arts Loft
5545 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Cultural Happenings, Drama, Women’s History Month
Apr 03, 2026

The inaugural production of Eos Theatre Company: The Trojan Women written by Caroline Bird after Euripides runs April 3rd to April 18th at Bramble Arts Loft in Andersonville.

Eos Theatre Company is a women founded theatre company focused on telling female centered stories and perspectives. The inception of this company stemmed from collaboration of School at Steppenwolf Alumni and The Loop Players in 2025. Our mission is to shine the light into the darkness of the human experience through transformative storytelling of female centered narratives. We wish to banish the shadows and amplify silenced voices.

The Trojan Women:

A blisteringly relevant modern-day version of Euripides’ anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison.

The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city’s captive women await their fate. Stalking the antiseptic confines of its mother and baby unit is Hecuba, the fallen Trojan queen, whilst the pregnant Chorus is shackled to her bed.

But their grief at what has been before will soon be drowned out by the horror of what is to come, as the Greek lust for vengeance consumes everything – man, woman and baby – in its path.

This caustic and radical new version of Euripides’ classic tragedy comes from one of the UK’s most exciting young poets, Caroline Bird. It is an intense, gripping look at what happens when the world collapses.

 

Tickets available at https://www.eostheatre.org/the-trojan-women