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Monday, November 9, 2020

15 Heroines: The Labyrinth review – defiant women rise up from the myths

Available online These bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology This three-part series enters the hearts and minds of women in Greek and Roman mythology – queens, consorts, wives and witches – who have been traditionally skimmed past in pursuit of adventuring, heroic masculinity. It tells their stories in bite-sized dramatic monologues, and is a welcome theatrical antidote to this second lockdown, cleverly conceived by the Jermyn Street theatre and directed under socially distanced conditions by its artistic director, Tom Littler, alongside Adjoa Andoh and Cat Robey. Every 15-minute drama has been performed and filmed live in a single take and each carries a fluid and energetic sense of real-time performance. Continue reading...


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