50 women flee forced marriage in a 2,500-year-old scream for bodily autonomy.
“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, probably in 463 BC."
Direction
Moni Ovadia's Jewish-Balkan theatrical fire meets Greek ritual.
Production
Siracusa's 5th-century BC amphitheater swallows you whole.
Acting
Donatella Finocchiaro's Corifea—grief made flesh and voice.
Director
Moni Ovadia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ovadia, a Sephardic Jewish artist from Bulgaria, found kinship with Aeschylus's refugees—his entire career bridges persecuted peoples across millennia.
This 2015 production landed during Europe's refugee crisis; audiences watching 50 'foreign' women beg for sanctuary at a Greek border hit different.
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