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Tag: Greek Mythology

Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth

29th April 201930th April 2019  Victoria Smith

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.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Thousand Acres, Anna Leszkiewicz, Brothers Grimm, Cambridge Literary Festival 2019, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, Fen, Fiction, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Jane Smiley, Man Booker Prize, Novel, Oedipus, Penguin, Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl, Vintage

The Thread by Russell Maliphant & Vangelis at Sadler’s Wells, London

18th March 201921st April 2020  Eirini Diamantouli

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.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Afro-Brazilian Capoeira, Contemporary dance, Greece, Greek Dance, Greek Mythology, Mary Katranztou, Michael Hulls, Myth, Russell Maliphant, The Thread, Vangelis

Simon Stone’s Medea at the Barbican, London

9th March 20199th March 2019  Barbara Bollig

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.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Debora Green, Euripides, Greek Mythology, International Theatre Amsterdam, Lorena Bobbit, Medea, Myth, Simon Stone, Theatre

Beware of Medea – [not] an apology

11th December 201811th December 2018  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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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Film and Media, TheatreTagged: Film, Greek Mythology, Klinger, Loher, Medea, Myth, Pasolini, Waterhouse
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