Ovid's Heroines with Clare Pollard
This event on 9th July 2015 at 19:30 has past.
Contact: julia@jaybird.org.uk
In 2013, poet Clare Pollard published Ovid’s Heroines with Bloodaxe books – a poetry collection that articulated ‘love in all its beautiful, messy, stupid complexity’.
Originally written in Rome some time around 20BC, Ovid’s poems (and Clare’s translations) are a series of letter poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth. Women - including Medea, Penelope and Ariadne - address the men they love.
Clare’s new free verse translation rediscovers Ovid's Heroines for the 21st Century, bringing to life a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern.
Jaybird Live Literature brings the Heroines top the stage in a new live literature production. Clare reads, recites and performs her astonishing poems against a backdrop of Mediterranean light and sound. Love letters fly back and forth between the ancient world and modern Britain - the messages of longing, suffering and beauty they bear are universal and timeless.
On tour throughout 2015, Ovid’s Heroines is intriguing and entertaining audiences up and down the country.
Jaybird Live Literature is delighted to be bringing Clare’s Ovid’s Heroines to …
BT Studio, Oxford Playhouse
Gloucester Street, Oxford OX1 2BN
Thursday 9th July, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01865 305305 / www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Prices: £10 / £8
Entry: £10 / £8
Time: 7:30pm
Note: Write Out Loud does its best to ensure the accuracy of event listings but can accept no liability or responsibility if it's just plain wrong.
Calendar
Use calendar to view other instances of this event and find out when it is next on.
Reviews for Ovid's Heroines with Clare Pollard
No comments posted yet.
If you wish to post a comment you must login.