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 ...

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the play takes a fictional look at Riefenstahl’s attempt to make an epic film based on the beautiful and vicious Amazon warrior queen Penthesilea, who shared a love affair with Achilles before ...

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.

Now that we’re out of the Homeric Iliad, the pace has picked up again with Achilles rushing from killing Penthesilea to his own death in a matter of minutes. In myth, Achilles falls in love with ...

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 ...