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Playwright Cheri Magid\u2019s black comedy confronts the mythic transformations of Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses through the lens of sexual violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah Baskin plays Myrrha, a classics student whose insensible professor is one day caused to transform into Myrrha herself and undergo the events of the poem.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baskin, directed by Michelle Bossy, is mesmerising. Her fluid character is another clever allusion to the play\u2019s classical material, and she executes each shift with agile precision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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When a god enters the room it\u2019s a strong, arched back and a haughty expression, and when a man, round shoulders and a grimace. Baskin\u2019s movement about the stage is as articulate as the script.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Myrrha\u2019s professor, Lucian Smyrna, apparently a \u2018cross between Steve Irwin, Sir David Attenborough \u2013 and Professor Ian Duncan,\u2019 is the play\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel. Smyrna\u2019s gormless appeals to the gods in a bizarre amalgam accent from Baskin became ever so slightly tedious.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, a compelling execution of an intelligent script.<\/p>\n
A Poem and a Mistake runs until 24 August at Drawing Room at Assembly Rooms.<\/p>\n
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