Andromache by Jean Racine (1639 - 1699)

In this tragedy [about part of the aftermath of the Trojan War], which made its appearance in 1667, there is a more intricate plot than is usual in Racine's plays, and it offers a greater variety of character and motive. Love, jealousy, friendship, conjugal fidelity, maternal tenderness, anger, and despair are all portrayed with skillful touches; and if the language is that of the French Court of the seventeenth century, the natural emotions of the human heart, the same in all ages, show themselves plainly under the mask of conventional mannerism - Summary by The TranslatorCast list:Andromache, widow of Hector, Captive of Pyrrhus: SoniaPyrrhus, Son of Achilles, King of Epirus: Matthew ReeceOrestes, Son of Agamemnon: Richard JasperingHermione, Daughter of Helen, betrothed to Pyrrhus: Shreya SethiPylades, Friend of Orestes: Alan MapstoneCleone, Friend of Hermione: Jessica HendraCephissa, Friend of Andromache: Hanna PonomarenkoPhoenix, Tutor of Achilles, and afterwards of Pyrrhus: ToddHWStage Directions: David PurdyEditing: ToddHW