THOK presents The Phoenician Women

The Cyprus Theatre Organisation will stage Euripides’ The Phoenician Women this summer, directed by Magdalena Zira. Kicking off in July, the production is included in the events commemorating 50 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, with performances in Nicosia, Limassol, Paphos, Larnaca and Deryneia.

The Phoenician Women, which belongs to Euripides’ late period, was written between 410 and 409 BC, in the last tumultuous years of the Peloponnesian War, shortly after the brief but...