Bill Maloney as Hecuba, The Trojan Women -- Mr. Maloney was the head of the Speech, Voice and Diction department at the Herbert Berghoff Studios -- his makeup for the role was patterned after caricatural drawings of George Grosz
Mario Montez as Cassandra -- ...and I, all alone in the dark... -- The Trojan Women of Euripides
Ondine as Poseidon in The Trojan Women -- the chorus functioned as octopus-like arms surrounding Poseidon who spoke with the effects of an ecoplex in underwater lighting, and dry ice.
The Trojan Women with Bill Maloney as Hecuba, Chris Marin as the child, Don Wyckoff as Talthybius and Harvey Fierstein as Andromache, Harvey Tavel as Chorus
Click here for -- The Trojan Women -- Commentary by Donald L. Brooks
Mario Montez and Bill Maloney, The Trojan Women
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Jackie Curtis and Chris Marin in The Trojan Women, directed by Donald L. Brooks
The Trojan Women of Euripides, designed and directed by Donald L. Brooks, here pictured is Bill Maloney as Hecuba (center) Don Wyckoff as Talthybius (standing), Harvey Fierstein (at right) and chorus leader Harvey Tavel (at left), Theater of the Lost Continent, 1971
The Trojan Women directed and designed by Donald L. Brooks, with Mario Montez as Cassandra
Oh Greek King, with your dreams of grandeur yet to come, vile as you are, so shall your end be! -- Mario Montez as Cassandra in The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women of Euripides directed and designed by Donald L. Brooks -- with Don Wyckoff as Talthybius
The Trojan Women directed and designed by Donald L. Brooks -- Harvey Fierstein as Andromache making entrance upon a motocycle -- a scene not in the production, photograph taken for the purpose of showing the neon sign which appeared briefly at the opening of the play with strobe and other effects.
Bill Maloney as Hecuba, The Trojan Women of Euripides
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Jackie Curtis as War, Ondine as Menelaus in Donald L. Brooks' production of The Trojan Women of Euripides
The Trojan Women with Leo Rice as Helen of Troy and Ondine as Menelaus
Jackie Curtis as War in Donald L. Brooks production of The Trojan Women of Euripides -- Curtis requested to join the production after all roles had been cast, Brooks created the chorus-like role of War for Curtis, adding yet another dimension to the production.
Photographs (click on any image to enlarge):  Bill Maloney as Hecuba; Harvey Fierstein as Andromache; Mario Montez as Cassandra; Ondine as Menelaus and
Poseidon; Leo Rice as Helen of Troy; Craig Johnson as Athena; Don Wyckoff as Talthybus; Harvey Tavel as Chorus with Arjedreaux, Norman Glick, John Heward,
Jon Jon, Alan Kleiman, Brew Kosroff, Chris Manis, Ralph Manis, Christian Soldier; with Jackie Curtis as Soldier (billed in program as Ares and/or War).
Mario Montez as Cassandra with flaming torch -- The Trojan Women
Harvey Fierstein as Andromache in The Trojan Women -- Mr. Fierstein literally knocked himself out at the dress rehearsal while pounding his head upon the floor in grief as the chracter and barely recovered in enough time to make his scripted exit.
Harvey Fierstein as Andromache, The Trojan Women
Original set sketch for design of Euripides The Trojan Women by Donald L. Brooks, 1971
Euripides' The Trojan Women, directed and designed by Donald L. Brooks at Theatre of the Lost Continent, 1971
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