The Trojan Women, Gate Theatre
Even a cameo by Tamsin Greig cannot redeem this painful adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. For an hour and a half, it screams with anguish, verging at times on the parodic. The production is a puzzle. Caroline Bird has updated the language: stripping the original of much of its poetry and adding expletives. Jason Southgate has designed a brilliantly claustrophobic modern hospital ward as the set. And Noe…