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Film Screening: Queens of Syria

Iffley Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 0PG, UK

51.4950917 -0.23039779999999155

Description

Queens of Syria is a remarkable film about fifty Syrian refugee women who came together in Jordan to put on a production of Euripides’ great tragedy of 415 BC, The Trojan Women, which focuses specifically on the suffering of women in times of war. In the original play, Troy has fallen, the men are dead, and the women of Troy, led by their Queen Hecuba, await, by the Greek tents, a future of banishment and slavery. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, enslaved and bereaved by the Trojan War. Winner of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s Black Pearl Award for Best Director, and numerous other awards, Queens of Syria, directed by Yasmin Fedda, was commissioned by the Syria Trojan Women Project (Refuge Productions Ltd). The aim of the film is both to help spread the word about the Syrian refugee crisis and to document the Syria Trojan Women Project’s therapeutic drama work with Syrian refugees. You can view a trailer for the film here: https://vimeo.com/86996865 6.30pm - 7.00pm: Drinks 7.00pm - 8.10pm: Screening of Queens of Syria 8.10pm - 8.20pm: Interval 8.20pm - 9.00pm: Q & A panel consisting of: Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling, the founders of the Syria Trojan Women Project and the Executive Producers of Queens of Syria; Reem Al Sayyah, one of the Syrian women in the cast; and Dr Laura Swift, Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University FREE tickets to staff and pupils. Aimed at Year 10 pupils and above. Please email Development@godolphinandlatymer.com Ticket profits are split between The Syria Trojan Women Project (STWP) and our Bursary Fund.

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Start: 2018-10-18T18:30:00+01:00

End: 2018-10-18T21:00:00+01:00

Tickets

General Ticket 16.59 GBP