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Preview: RMTC's production of Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Penelopiad, a play based on Margaret Atwood's novella, opens February 21, 2013. Jennifer Lyon stars as Penelope (far right) and Sarah Constible as Odysseus (far left) (Melissa Tait / Winnipeg Free Press) (MELISSA TAIT / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store
The stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 2005 novella The Penelopiad opens Thursday at the RMTC Warehouse.
In Thursday’s Uptown read about how Atwood rescues Penelope from obscurity as the boringly faithful wife in Homer’s Odyssey and makes her a star in The Penelopiad.
The celebrated Canadian novelist tells a very different side of an old story from a female perspective and reveals her heroine to be a wily, pragmatic survivor.
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Updated on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM CST: Tweaks headline.
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