The Man Who Found Troy by award-winning playwright Joseph Krawczyk is about Heinrich Schliemann, a millionaire who, in 1868, commences to excavate the fabled city of Troy. He is accompanied by his bride, Sophia, a very beautiful 17-year-old Greek girl who consents to wed the very wealthy 47-year-old Heinrich to rescue her impoverished family. She makes a promise to Heinrich that she will, in time, “learn to love him”. That pending “love’ is the thread that binds together the fascinating story about a ruthless millionaire determined to be “The Man Who Found Troy” and that of his child bride. In this 3-actor play, you will also meet some legendary characters from “The Iliad”: Helen, Menelaus, Achilles, Priam, and Hector. These roles will also be played by the same actors who portray Sophia, Heinrich and Frank Calvert, the hapless partner of Heinrich Schliemann.

Based on the true story of German business man/archaeological pioneer Heinrich Schliemann, The Man Who Found Troy, now playing at The American Theatre of Actors, relates the captivating adventures of this millionaire who in 1868 began the excavation of the fabled city of Troy. This thoroughly enjoyable story is cleverly brought to the stage by the talented award-winning playwright Joseph P. Krawczyk. Krawczyk takes the true story one step further by creatively elaborating on Heinrich Schliemann’s obsession with Ancient Greek mythology, heightening this aspect by deftly transferring between scenes and characters from Homer’s The Iliad back to Schliemann’s present time. This is done with great consciousness and dabbles of humor. Heinrich Schliemann (skillfully played by Johnny Blaze Leavitt) as a man of 47 marries a young 17-year-old Greek girl, Sophia (played by charming and talented Chelsea Clark), and then proceeds to mount his grand excavation project. Although Schliemann’s accomplishments can be seen as groundbreaking (no pun intended) he is now generally viewed as an egotistic and power-hungry charlatan, having used dynamite to uncover treasure he had no right or claim to, dama …Read more