Press Release

The Cure at Troy

a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney

directed by Barry Kyle

Helen F. Spencer Theatre, PAC

Moving, poetic masterpiece, and deeply relevant.

The Cure at Troy is about a nation coming home from war. After the long war in Troy, the Greeks sail home, taking with them their equipment, their hostages, and their wounded hopes. Was the war a victory or not? They put in to an island, where they re-encounter one of their own who was abandoned during the rush to war. He carries an agonizing wound. In the play's great encounters between this man and Odysseus, the mastermind behind the war, emerges the war's real story. How does a country heal itself after war? What burden is carried forward by those who fought the war? And for the nation they destroyed in war... is there a cure at Troy?  – Barry Kyle, director