Trojan Barbie
by Christine Evans

Post Theatre Company at Long Island University
October 2016

Director: Illana Stein
Scenic Designer: Stephen Carmody
Costume Designer: Anthony Paul-Cavaretta
Lighting Designer: Christina Wantanabe
Composer and Original Sound Design: Andrew Lynch
Assistant Director: Kayleigh Jacobs
Photo Credit: Eric Ross and Anthony Paul-Cavaretta

“You will always be a foreigner, stuck on the wrong side of the looking glass.”- Christine Evans, Trojan Barbie

What I love about Christine’s play is that along with the comedy, she offers the other perspective, a witness to the tragedy. This play challenges us by creating a world that marries the old and the new, or the stone and the plastic. This theme was fully embraced in the production design. In the playwright’s words she calls the setting, “The past folded uneasily into the present.”

In this play, Lottie was our hope. She was the voice to the voiceless. In the last moments of the production, Lottie stood on stage, surrounded by the ghosts of the past. She is the one who was there to put the pieces back together, to bury the dead, and carry on the stories of the women to make sure they will never be forgotten.