Scorching adaptation of Ovid is a welcome theatrical respite from lockdown Women have an awful time of it in the Greek myths. Raped, abandoned, blamed for murdering people, blamed for not murdering people " you name it, it's happened to an Ancient Greek woman, and they didn't even get to talk about it themselves. Ovid picked up on this discrepancy, and, in a rare flash of wokeness, wrote The Heroines, 18 letter-poem…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:12AM on November 11, 2020