Suggests: Fabulous Creatures: Women between Reality and Myth

Theatre Director Emily Louizou in conversation with the play’s Executive Producer Elizabeth Filippouli

Greek Myths and Women Monsters: A new music-theatre show rethinking revenge, justice, destiny. Collide Theatre and Elizabeth Filippouli stage an epic new show about the never before told story of the female monsters of The Odyssey, blending humour and darkness, myth and modernity and raising question on stereotyping and bias. Theatre Director Emily Louizou in conversation with the play’s Executive Producer Elizabeth Filippouli.  Once the pre-eminent killers of the mythical age, who even Gods would turn to for their dirty work, they’ve long given up their licence to kill. Now they run a private club hidden somewhere between Mount Olympus and the Underworld.  They used to kill, but now they cabaret:

• SIREN, the woman-bird with the notorious voice

• SCYLLA the rock star with her outrageous costumes

• And last but not least the shapeshifting CHARYBDIS aka “Whirlpool”, the…