15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid Contributor(s): Various, Various (Author) |
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ISBN: 184842986X ISBN-13: 9781848429864 Publisher: Nick Hern Books OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | Women Authors - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | Lgbt |
Dewey: 822.920 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women - queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians - in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines. They were the women left in the wake of those swaggering heroes of classical mythology: Theseus, Hercules, Ulysses, Jason, Achilles... Now, drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of these fifteen heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century. 15 Heroines was commissioned by Jermyn Street Theatre, London, and first performed - online and in three parts - in November 2020, presented in partnership with Digital Theatre. This edition of all fifteen monologues is introduced by directors - Adjoa Andoh, Tom Littler and Cat Robey - and writer, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes. The War tells the untold stories of the Trojan War: Oenone, Hermione, Laodamia, Briseis and Penelope, written by Lettie Precious, Sabrina Mahfouz, Charlotte Jones, Abi Zakarian and Hannah Khalil. |