Synopsis

The Balkan Women

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Jules Tasca

Published by Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Winner! 1997/98 Barrymore Award for Best New Play

This meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women

Men are pitted against women, Christians against Muslims, and Croats against Serbs in a drama that bares the inner conflicts that result when society is governed by illogical ethnic hatreds

A hard boiled, devoutly Christian guard is torn by conflicting inner voices as he interrogates a prisoner and her mother about an explosion that killed sixteen of his soldiers

The arrival of a new, wounded camp commandant triggers murder and inevitable catastrophes reminiscent of ancient tragedy

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"Theatrically bold and politically moving ... The dialogue has an odd and effective stateliness, as though we're listening to a translation of an ancient work" ~ Variety

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