Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Everything Under, rewrites the Oedipus myth into a mother-daughter story set in an eerie, waterlogged world.
Rooted in the past, carrying us forth between present and future, Russell Maliphant and Vangelis’ The Thread is a choreographic and musical exploration in tradition and invention.
Simon Stone’s Medea, performed by the International Theatre Amsterdam, is a bold, masterful juxtaposition of Euripidean and Contemporary Tragedy, says our arts contributor Barbara Bollig.
Barbara Bolig explores the various retellings of the Medea myth and asks if it’s possible to sympathise with one of mythology’s darkest female protagonists.
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