2015 · Site-specific performance · Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London · Robin Linde Productions
Writers were commissioned to write a new monologue in response to a character from Sophocles. The results were performed on the sixth floor of a multi-storey car park in Peckham.
Electra, Creon, Deianira and Oedipus were the starting points, but nobody was asked to adapt anything. The writers answered back, and they answered from wherever they happened to be standing. Matt Cunningham, who was teaching at the time, recognised Creon in the paperwork teachers have to fill in: well-meaning rules that end up trapping the person who made them. He wrote his piece in the same loose iambic pentameter as the translation he was working from, which is a set of rules too. Lucy Shaw arrived at Electra by way of a Temple of Artemis she had visited in Turkey that year. Jodi Gray walked past Deianira altogether and wrote for Iole, the woman Sophocles leaves silent.
In response to Electra
How to Rip Out a Heart in Four Easy Steps by Zoe Lewis · performed by Judith Amsenga, directed by Anthony Lau
Visionary Anger by Lucy Shaw · performed by Katherine-Ellen Kotz, directed by Sam Philips, and by Verity Kirk, directed by Caitlin McLeod
Dust by Harry Melling · performed by Maya Wasowicz, directed by Caitlin McLeod and Sam Philips
In response to Creon
Aftermath by Declan Feenan · performed by Douggie McMeekin, Orlando James and David Leopold
Creon at Work by Matt Cunningham · performed by Al Barclay and Phil Cairns, directed by Caitlin McLeod and Douglas Rintoul.
In response to Oedipus
Zain Tyrannus by Paul Murphy · performed by Arian Nick, directed by Anthony Lau and Sam Philips
In response to Deianira
This Girl by Jodi Gray · performed by Robin Steegman, directed by Dave Kirkbride
Produced by: Robin Linde Productions
Presented at: Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London