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DARK SECRETS: Medea - The Real Truth

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers

Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly know some of his stories. His most famous work, the Metamorphoses, is a Latin epic poem composed of hundreds of tales of mythical transformations, many of which are still being told and retold today.

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Centenary celebrations: Martha Graham's dance company hits Athens for its anniversary

The legendary American contemporary dance outfit, the Martha Graham Dance Company is staging six performances at the Athens Concert Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of its founding in New York in 1926.

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Who are the worst mothers in literature? Our experts weigh in

The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliche, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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Ruins by Amy Taylor review – Euro getaway turns to hell in this addictive, soapy thriller

Over one stinking summer in Athens, a thirtysomething couple open their relationship – with disastrous consequences. It’s no surprise a film adaptation is already in the works

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‘I’m scared and my work reflects that’: the artist painting heavy questions onto the lightness of silk

Across Europe, Emma Talbot’s striking works fill galleries with dazzling images and telling questions, all painted onto a rather unusual material. She talks us through her dark obsessions – and the tragedy that changed everything

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Stepmothers, relax, you’ll always be wicked but true love is worth it

Two new surveys confirm that women who take on children from an earlier marriage will almost always be seen as witches

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The week in dance: Nutcracker; Ruination; Cinderella review – sugar plums, hard centres and off to the ball

ENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a searing festive antidote from Ben Duke

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Let it show: find an event for every day until Christmas with our culture advent calendar

From The Nutcracker in Glasgow and the Human League in Cardiff to Messiaen in Manchester and Maggie Mistletoe in Farnham, our critics pick the best cultural events in the run-up to Christmas

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The Ultimate Scorpio Gift Guide: Best present ideas for the Scorpio in your life

Presents for those born between October 23 and November 21

Evening Standard

Best books about Greek mythology to learn the classic tales of ancient history

From immortalised classical epics to lesser-known myths

Evening Standard

'There is beauty there but it’s also a bit subverted': Ella Walker at Pilar Corrias

Ella Walker presents her first exhibition at London's Pilar Corrias gallery, ‘The Romance of the Rose’, her female figures variously exposed, playful, dangerous and joyous

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Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

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Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel Glorious Exploits

Described as a ‘masterclass in tragicomedy’, the novel, set in Syracuse in 412BC, follows two locals who decide to stage Medea in a quarry using prisoners as actors

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Greek tragedy is child's play for eight-year-old actor

Starring in Medea, Edward Hill acknowledges that juggling two theatre roles with year ten maths isn't exactly normal for an eight-year-old.

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‘Medea and I would have shared a coffee’: Playwright on new show in Glasgow

HER mother ran a popular sweet shop opposite the Lyceum in Edinburgh and she studied for her first masters at the University of Glasgow, so it is…

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Four New Heroes Join the Fight in Seven Knights Idle Adventure

A new update adds new heroes and introduces new modes. New activities have also been launched.

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‘She’s bound and gagged for laughs’: is Poor Things a feminist masterpiece – or an offensive male sex fantasy?

The Oscar contender about a sex-crazed young woman with an infant’s brain is dramatically dividing cinema-goers. We asked cultural commentators for their verdicts. Warning: contains spoilers

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Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon review – classical tragedy as a Celtic caper

This clever debut uses a modern Irish vernacular for the tale of mismatched buddies staging Medea with Athenian prisoners in ancient Syracuse

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Theatre Nisha to stage adaptation of Euripedes’ Medea in Chennai

Shakthi Ramani talks of awe and fascination for Euripedes' Medea, a complex play of binaries. Theatre Nisha's Why she did, What she did is a new articulation of the 431 BC play. Shakthi directs and Vishwa Bharath percusses. The show will be staged on Dec 8 & 9 at Alliance…

The Guardian - AU

God Forgets About the Poor by Peter Polites review – the author’s most striking work yet

Melding memoir and fiction, the author of Down the Hume and the Pillars makes magic and myth from his migrant mother’s life – and reaches beyond that too

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What's behind our enduring fascination with wives and mothers who kill?

In March 2023, a Utah woman named Kouri Richins published a children’s book titled “Are You With Me?” which she characterized as an effort to help her three young sons process the loss of their father, who had died suddenly the previous year. Presenting herself as a concerned mother and…

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‘I thought people would throw bottles’: orgy in Athens as ancient Greek drama strips off and lets rip

Naked choruses, sexual fantasies, rubbish tip wastelands and nods to refugee camps … Athens’ Epidaurus festival is thrilling audiences – and thrusting theatre into the 21st century

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What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have also been leaving the workforce since the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases to care for children and elderly…

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Medea in mid-air: how Syracuse’s Greek theatre keeps the classics alive

Playing in the vast ancient amphitheatre, imaginative new productions of Euripides and Aeschylus find fresh nuance even in this huge space

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A torrent of revenge is unleashed in A Red Orchid’s unflinching ‘Is God Is’

Between dreamlike, choreographed scene transitions, the bodies pile up, each death ruthless, complex and — a credit to Aleshea Harris’ writing — unexpected.

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