Richard Crouse

I wrote about the third Toronto Star Theatre Series, hosted by critic Joshua Chong, which saw subcribers watch a performance of “Medusa” at Soulpepper and enjoy a stimulating conversation about the show afterwards over dinner at The Cluny Bistro.

“Greek myth­o­logy is hav­ing a moment this sum­mer.

“At the movies, an adapt­a­tion of the clas­sic work ‘The Odys­sey’ is cap­tiv­at­ing audi­ences, while, at Soulpep­per Theatre Com­pany in Toronto’s Dis­til­lery His­toric Dis­trict, ‘Medusa’ offered audi­ences a blis­ter­ing fem­in­ist retell­ing of the ancient Greek myth about a Gor­gon with live snakes for hair.

On July 8, par­ti­cipants in the Toronto Star Theatre Club were immersed in the ori­gin story of the char­ac­ter “before the ser­pents, before the legend,” when she was “a woman in a world that feared her power,” the pro­duc­tion’s play­bill reads…” Read the whole thing HERE!