![]() “That any idea of, well, I tell you 13 women are gonna sing and tell you a story? Great, that’s a nice image you have in your head? It’s not that.” ![]() “Whatever you expect to see, it’s not that,” Rodriguez joked. The story comes alive beneath the spotlight at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor Theatre under the direction of third-year graduate student Sara Rodriguez. “The Penelopiad” - written by Margaret Atwood, known for her 1985 dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale” - reenvisions Homer’s ancient Greek classic to tell the story from the perspective of Penelope, the queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus who was left to fend off unruly suitors during Odysseus’ 20-year absence. “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” - “The Odyssey” ![]()
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