Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare present
VENUS & ADONIS
A Bell Shakespeare and Malthouse Melbourne co-production developed through Mind’s Eye

 
“A stunning theatrical adaptation...a profound enactment of the anguish and ecstasy of love...” The Australian

Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis is a subversive re-working of Ovid’s original love story. Unlike its model, it celebrates the most human aspects of seduction: it is vulgar, funny, sexy and whole-hearted.

The story is simple. Goddess meets Boy, Goddess wants Boy, Goddess (in Shakespeare’s version) doesn’t get Boy; instead he turns into a Flower. The Goddess is brought to earth with the crashing thud of human failure.

In this sparkling new response to Shakespeare’s most popular poem, Venus is a woman with a past who is having trouble with her future. Directed by Bell Shakespeare’s Associate Director, Marion Potts, Venus & Adonis premiered at the CUB Malthouse in 2008. Melissa Madden Gray and Susan Prior portray a Hydra-headed Venus who is ardent, wilful, wanton, terrifying… but also wondering where the hell she’s heading. Desire is only half of the story.…
 

Schools Days Thursday 19 and Wednesday 25 February.

Venue Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company

Suitability Yrs 11-12

Estimated Duration 1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

 Please Note there will be no pre-performance discussion for this production