by Euripides translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray
[Starring] Lillah McCarthy and Flora Robson
Characters
(By permission of London Film Productions Ltd.)
Chorus directed by Elsie Fogerty, and trained by Gwynneth Thurbum

The scene takes place before the walls of Troy, just after the battle
Play produced by Barbara Burnham

'We feel in the background', writes Gilbert Murray in his preface to his translation, 'the presence of the conquerors, sinister and disappointed phantoms; of the conquered men, after long torment now resting in death. But the living drama for Euripedes lay in the conquered women.... The Troades itself has indeed almost no fierceness and singularly little thought of revenge. It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music, as it were, and made beautiful by "The most tragic of the poets".'
The radio production of this famous Greek tragedy will be distinguished by the broadcasting of two of the great actresses of modern times. The part of Hecuba will be played by Lillah McCarthy, whose retirement from the stage in 1922 came all too soon for her many admirers: while that of Cassandra, daughter of Hecuba, will be played by Flora Robson, whose performance in the play Mary Tudor will not soon be forgotten.
An article on the tragedy will be found on page 6.