News: For playwright Erin Shields, the future is female – but what about the past?

For feminist playwright Erin Shields, there’s no question that the future is female.

But throughout her canon of work, the Governor-General’s Award-winning writer has made a compelling case that the past was female, too – even the myths and epics that have historically spotlighted men. Her plays regularly confront classic texts – Shakespeare, Ovid, even the Bible – and dare to wonder aloud how those stories as we know them might be fundamentally incomplete.

Ransacking Troy, which opens at the Stratford Festival on Aug. 21, is no exception. The work, directed by former Shaw Festival artistic director Jackie Maxwell, wrestles with the Trojan War, asking questions of that legendary tale and coming up with answers which differ from those you might have heard in school...

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