The famed ancient Greek hero Achilles was known as a fierce warrior, but the story of his love for the Amazon Penthesilea is ...

Their queen, Penthesilea, has been ordered by the god Ares to kill Achilles. The prophetess Cassandra (played here brilliantly by Katherine Campbell Rossi) is uttering truths to the Trojans that ...

Ancient Greece is known for its mythology, which enshrined tales of mighty warriors, here are the finest that Greek mythology ...

The walkouts start when Penthesilea and Achilles, mostly naked, begin to writhe in a very large saucer of thick slime. Critics of German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist called his 1808 play unstageable.

Arbo’s reimagining of the myth presents an unravelling of gender and sexuality: both Penthesilea and Achilles come from single-sex tribes, and Arbo makes the desire and intimacy within each of ...

With Achilles a handsome heel who does likewise as he and Penthesilea spar, songs are used as weapons of intent before becoming a soundtrack for disaster. This makes for a pretty wild affair ...