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 hostess of the grotesque, your MC with no clemency.

But the glamourous routine of their cabaret life is about to be shattered. A desperate and determined woman comes to them for help in taking down her abusive husband before he returns from a ten year war. These fabulous creatures are now faced with a deadly dilemma: sacrifice the safety of the shadows or come out into the light and help a stranger in her hour of need?  As the stakes ratchet up, we move from cabaret to tragedy.  In the Conversation at the Hellenic Centre, Elizabeth and Emily will discuss questions such as:

• What does it mean to be labelled a monster?
• What does it mean to live in a world which shames, excludes and vilifies you.
• And what if the monster is not who you’ve always thought to be.

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