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Stage Review

Nowhere to turn in magnetic ‘Trojan Women’

By Don Aucoin

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 22, 2012

Greek tragedy poses a particular challenge to any theater company: how to avoid the kind of stylized, museum-piece remoteness that can make modern audiences feel like they’re watching strangely loquacious statuary. In his Whistler in the Dark Theatre production of Euripides’s “Trojan Women,’’ director Ben Evett tackles that problem by planting the audience — or a good chunk of it, anyway — right onstage, smack-dab in the middle of the action.

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