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THE STAGE

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THE GUARDIAN

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THE SCOTSMAN

What if there was another take on the Trojan War, an untold breathtaking adventure you had never heard before?

Enter Medusa. She was there. 

Monstrous gorgon? Snakes for hair? A turn-to-stone glare? Perhaps. But she was there - as a bodiless head strapped to the shield of a goddess.

Her forever-open-eyes saw it all: Epic combat. Mighty swords. Giant horse-sculptures filled with men. But as the war raged on, Medusa’s petrifying gaze focused on three extraordinary women who might just hold the key to her ultimate hope.

Beautiful Evil Things is a new, high-energy, one woman show from Ad Infinitum combining physical storytelling with cut-throat wit. Coming hot on the heels of their multi award-winning hit, Odyssey, join Medusa for a thrilling adventure. 

Number 4 in The Guardian’s ‘Best Theatre of 2022’

★★★★
Hair-raising, heart-quickening whirl of myths
The Guardian

★★★★★ 
Dynamic, illuminating and hugely entertaining
The Scotsman

★★★★★ 
Blistering…powerfully choreographed
The Arts Desk

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High-intensity performance in Ad Infinitum’s signature style
The Stage

★★★★★ 
We are captured heart and soul by the sheer force of energy on stage
Theatre Weekly

★★★★★ 
Simply astounding
Starburst Magazine

★★★★ 
A Greek epic with startling modern relevance
Morning Star

★★★★  A tour de force…an outstanding performance
British Theatre Guide

★★★★★
Never was the story of the classical Greek heroes and villains better told
StageTalk Magazine

Fast, furious and energetic…a faultless performance
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Sian Norris

Sian Norris is a writer and journalist. She is the Chief European and Social Affairs Reporter at Byline Times. Her book, Bodies Under Siege, will be published by Verso in 2023 and examines the far-right attack on women's reproductive rights. In 2012 she set up the Bristol Women's Literature Festival which she ran for eight years.

Photo credit: Jon Sneddon.

Aimee Hinds Scott

Aimee Hinds Scott is a PhD student at the University of Roehampton. Her research focuses on intersectional possibilities in receptions of Greek mythology in popular culture, with an emphasis on pushing at the boundaries of feminist retelling and adaptation. She has written about bad feminism in classical reception, appropriations of mythology in fashion, and about receptions of Medusa outside the Anglosphere.

Dr Emma Cole

Dr Emma Cole is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC Innovation Fellow (2019-2022). She is the author of Postdramatic Tragedies (OUP, 2019) and the co-editor of Adapting Translation for the Stage (Routledge, 2017). Her current research focuses on ancient literature and immersive experience. Her next book, Punchdrunk on the Classics: Ancient Greek Literature and Immersive Experience, showcases this research and draws upon her practical experiences working as dramaturg and academic advisor respectively on Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City (2022) and Kabeiroi (2017). It will be published in 2023 with Palgrave.

Rachel Dinning - chair

Rachel Dinning is an award-winning journalist specialising in history. She has interviewed a number of top historians for print, podcast and online over the years – and has a specific interest in women’s history.