Years after she walked out on her family, Helen has returned home after a war fought in her name. Her husband celebrates, her childhood friend Cee does not. Over the course of this first fragile night of peace time, wounds reopen, loyalties fracture and the true cost of a woman's choice to leave her life is made clear.

Ava Pickett's fierce new play Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy is premiered at Stratford East, London, in 2026.