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Jermyn Street theatre onlineThe aggrieved women of the poet’s Heroides speak loud and clear in 15 bristling new monologues by top playwrights, scorchingly delivered by 15 leading actors
Here is a triumphant revoicing of famous tales. A double act of ventriloquy. Two thousand years ago, Ovid’s Heroides reimagined Greek myths in the form of letters from ingenious, abandoned women to their celebrated lover heroes. Now Jermyn Street and Digital Theatre take off from these in 15 streamed monologues, each by a different hand and with a different speaker. Language and settings are contemporary: laptops, ironing, a police cell. The brutality and incisiveness of the stories is not tamed.
Adjoa Andoh, Tom Littler and Cat Robey direct. Johanna Town’s lighting washes the screen with sealight and shadow. Nicola Chang and Max Pappenheim’s soundscapes bring a crash of waves, the babble of rumour – and as Medea approaches a cot, the tinkle from a child’s mobile toy. Continue reading...