Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy - Stratford East, London.

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I have not been so excited about a playwright for years. Ava Pickett's update of Helen of Troy's story starring Michelle Dockery is thrilling and searingly topical

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy - Ava Pickett’s urgent riposte to toxic masculinity

Stratford East Theatre Royal’s production of Ava Pickett’s play which takes the Trojan war to modern-day Essex

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy - Stratford East, London.

Writer: Ava Pickett Director: Lisa Spirling Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy is full of people arguing and laying blame and plotting retribution, just like the folk in Agamemnon’s city, Mycenae. Blood debts from decades before have to be paid, murders met with murders, lies met with, well, murder. Murder is the answer to most problems, [...]

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – classical myth burns into modern England

Theatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable ‘And Zeus created … Essex.” Playwright Ava Pickett set her award-winning debut, 1536, in her home county during Tudor times: her latest has Helen of Troy returning home…

'Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy' review - Ava Pickett's faint but ferocious thriller

‘1536’ playwright Ava Pickett’s latest work, starring Michelle Dockery and Laura Aikman, is now playing at London’s Stratford East theatre. The post ‘Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy’ review – Ava Pickett’s faint but ferocious thriller appeared first on Liam O'Dell.

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – Michelle Dockery's Helen shows how women saying 'no' is a political act in Ava Pickett play

Greek mythology obsession is sky-high right now, and so it seems only right that a woman ground it in reality.In her sophomore offering, playwright Ava Pickett clips the wings of thousands of years of epic poetry by showing us the unfiltered aftermath of Helen of Troy's return to Sparta.It's true that Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey gave us a far grittier representation of Greek soldierhood than we've seen before, using the mud and blood of Worl…