Trojan Women: the Greek tragedy that became a queer Korean opera
A bold new show retells the Euripides classic through traditional pansori, K-pop and the story of 'comfort women' in the second world warIn 1991, Ong Keng Sen directed Euripides' Trojan Women in a granite quarry in Singapore in the wee hours of the morning. He chose Jean-Paul Sartre's 1965 adaptation, a fiery indictment of the Indochina wars, which styled French colonialists as the conquering Greeks and the Vietnames…