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Aphrodite

Dazzling: wise, clever twists about choice, male determination, and consequence.

Icarus

After all the gods and their lack of choice, we come to the final instalment, the human dimension. Where we have one. A heartfelt, satisfying finish.

Metamorphoses

The overriding sense, not surprisingly with these actors, is joy.

Mr and Mrs Nobody

A warm-hearted yet sharp-witted peek at how the Pooter half live

Ode to Joyce

A gem of an incarnation.

Orpheus

A terrific reinvention, bringing gods and heroines up from the death of myth to an altered world.

Paradise

A sleeping classic in the making

Persephone

Dazzling: wise, clever twists about choice, male determination, and consequence.

Pygmalion

The most profound reinvention of this particular myth I’ve seen

The Love and War Trilogy

An enormously satisfying traversal

The Mahabharata

A dramatic sense of arrival the way the Odyssey here ended: a clash of even vaster ferocity, keening, treachery, humour, mischievousness, sacrifice and grief, joy and the agency of women.

The Odyssey

As spellbinding as Circe and Calypso in one

Wilde Without the Boy

A jewel of inhabiting

William Blake Letters From Heaven and Hell

An ideal inhabiting of Blake