THE PENELOPIAD
By Margaret Atwood
Produced by Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble
August 25th – September 10th 2023
Penelope, dutiful wife od Odysseus and less beautiful cousin of Helen, is ready to tell her story.
Left alone for decades while Odysseus fights in the Trojan War, Penelope must face her own battles, managing Ithaca, difficult in-laws, her son and hordes of increasingly menacing suitors.
Adapted for the stage by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale), The Penelopiad is a contemporary take on Homer’s The Odyssey that sees Penelope and her twelve wronged maids take centre stage. Full of live music, poetry, tragedy and Atwood’s wicked humour, The Penelopiad is sure to be a night of storytelling at its most epic!
“Now that I am dead, I know everything…”
CAST
Liliana Macarone as ‘Penelope’
Riley Anderson as ‘Maid/Telemachus’
Meg Bennett as ‘Maid/Queen Anticleia’
Mikala Crawley as ‘Maid’
Leah Fitzgerald-Quinn as ‘Maid/Helen’
Ellen Hardisty as ‘Maid/Suitor/Naiad’
Sarah Hindle as ‘Maid’
Frances Marrington as ‘Maid/Eurycleia’
Leah Mustard as ‘Maid’
Rob Pensalfini as ‘Maid/Odysseus’
Rebekah Schmidt as ‘Maid/Oracle’
Angus Thorburn as ‘Maid/Suitor/King Laertes’
Willem Whitfield as ‘Maid/Suitor/Icarius’
CREW
Directed – Rebecca Murphy
Assistant Director – Rebekah Schmidt
Production Manager – Kylii Davies
Stage Manager – Jordan Ferguson
Music Director/Composer – Rob Pensalfini
Fight Director – Jason McKell
Costume Designer – Leah Fitzgerald-Quinn
Technical Manager & Sound Design – Donovan Wagner
Set & Props Designer – Josh Murphy
Lighting Designer – Timothy James
Assistant Costume Designer – Linda Ogonowski
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