The women stand in front of microphones to offer their individual memories, sit silently on benches or engage in patterned movements to become the Trojan women. It seems faintly obscene to slap star ratings on a show created out of the sufferings of 13 Syrian female refugees. Another woman vividly evokes her aunt’s traumatised disbelief at the kidnapping and killing of her 20-year-old taxi-driver son. But, in the end, it is a public event and one where I feel the harrowing voice of lived experience scarcely needs the use of Euripides’s The Trojan Women as a reference point and framework. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the GuardianWhat this piece genuinely reveals is the anger these women feel at their enforced refugee status.

Source: The Guardian July 07, 2016 21:56 UTC