FRINGE - Kassandra

Do all stories include sex, war, and power, winners and losers?
Using the mythical figure of ancient Greek tragedy’s Cassandra, playwright Sergio Blanco creates a one woman tour-de-force. Kassandra, wearing red patent-leather boots, reveals her Odyssey. In her off-kilter immigrant English, she talks about our own search for meaning and hope. Tears and laughter, sarcasm and humour, Euripides and Bugs Bunny, Abba, Manchester United and Scarlett O’Hara. The distance between myth and reality, performer and audience, space and text collapses.
A real stand-up tragedy!
 
Kassandra is performed in broken English by a protagonist who is simultaneously the Cassandra of ancient Greek tragedy and a transsexual immigrant prostitute in any city of the 21st century – an exile in her own body, a strager in every country.

The question of identity in all its facets (gender, social, ethnic) is present throughout the play. Also, the desperate struggle to stave off loneliness; the deliberate and perpetual clinging to hope; the endless attempts at communication. Under such adverse conditions, the last resort is creating one's own meaning for life out of the detritus of the hostile world.