The Stage 32 Videos: Fires

"But men are not made to spend their entire lives warming themselves at the same domestic fires. He went away toward new conquest and left me standing like a big deserted house filled with the ticking of a useless clock." Old Mountain Countryside (Temska, Serbia) - outdoors performance - an excerpt 1 ( Clytemnestra)

"I killed him only for that, to force him to realize that I was not a thing of no importance that you could drop or hand over to the first comer." Old Mountain Countryside - outdoors performance - an excerpt 2 ( Clytemnestra)

"Do you know how I recognise you Polynices, among the men made equal by the appearance of decay? By your nakedness, which removed you from all deceit. By the solitude surrounding you like an honor guard." Old Mountain Countryside - outdoors performance - an excerpt (Antigone)

SOLO PERFORMANCE - based on the motifs of the eponymous book written by Marguerite Yourcenar - adapted by Aleksandra Malivuk Five women. Five lives. Five deaths. Five confessions. Five poems about love. Five women burned in the fires of their own blood. Five profoundly intimate stories - about choices and consequences, shame and dignity, despair and suicide, revenge and remorse, crime and punishment, quest and salvation. And above all, about love and passion - uncompromising and total, crazy and fatal, reaching dizzying and dangerous heights. Five famous and influential women from the ancient past are tried afresh, before the today’s court and jury , even though previously tried and convicted, even though they condemned to death both themselves and others, especially their loved ones. They are now re-examined for the actions they committed and fight to have their voices heard again. The accused are: 01:40 Mary Magdalene - accused of whoring; 16:30 Antigone - accused of rebellion; 25:56 Phaedra - accused of a crime of passion; 35:50 Clytemnestra - accused of cold-blooded murder; 51:16 Sappho - accused of bisexuality