Norma Jean Baker of Troy, a performance piece mashing up Marilyn Monroe and Euripides. Now she makes time for literary play, her Troy âcrouched on the plain like James Baldwin / with its eyelids drifting down and drifting upâ, but her writing remains as fierce as ever. At this #MeToo moment protesting against the objectification of women, her Trojan women are drawn as literally animal, the spoils of war, a âmob of dogs and cows you see downstage [â¦] leftover femalesâ.
Carsonâs purposeful play bypasses nostalgia for the kind of traditional forms on display in another creative revisioning. Gillian Clarkeâs new translation of