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  • Ky Weeks:
    17 Aug. 2021
    There's a certain kind of spellcasting woven into the cadence of this play. It's hard to put a finger on, but is absolutely felt. Poynton brings forth figures from myth, as as people we may recognize, with human hopes, needs, and anger. But this is also a play in which magic exists, not in a figurative sense, but as a fundamental rule to the world that effects all who are in it. The form that magic takes is dark, chaotic, merciless, all the more so because it's grounded in the real. A powerful tale of Gods and monsters.
  • Justin Maxwell:
    8 Aug. 2020
    This is a powerful, breathtaking play. Had I seen it in production, instead of reading it on NPX, I would have wept through it. The script is intense and complex. The roles are just perfect for actors to climb inside of. The show's language carries the day in such a way that a large house with a budget for complex props and costumes could have a hit just as easily as a storefront venue putting up the show on a shoe string.
  • Otherworld Theatre Company, NFP:
    30 Apr. 2020
    We produced this profound and poetic piece in April 2019, garnishing us critical acclaim. The most meaningful impact the play produced were the victims of violence against women who came up to use after the production, sharing their stories in kind with us. They told us they felt healed by the writing and that the playwright stayed true to their experience. It is a play you should not pass up.
  • Greg Burdick:
    7 Oct. 2017
    Classic mythological titans deliver a contemporary social commentary in this incredibly thoughtful take on Medusa’s origin story. Poynton explores the complexities of power dynamics in relationships, themes of jealousy and unrequited love, manipulation, and exploitation. But best of all, the Greeks would have marveled at her uncanny ability to evoke pathos for the often-maligned gorgon... beautiful and sad, all at once. Stunningly good.
  • Donna Hoke:
    6 Jul. 2015
    MEDUSA UNDONE is a deftly wrought and compelling play that reveals monster Medusa's origin story while raising relevant and resonant questions about our own culture: Who has the power? Why are women often each other's worst enemies? How do we fight back?
  • Sheila Cowley:
    18 Apr. 2015
    What starts out as as a witty romance turns into Medusa's origin story. Poseidon is a charming rogue and Medusa a beautiful, determined woman trying to find her place in the world, and madly in love with Athena. Beautifully paced and building to a chilling start to the Greek myths we all remember, Poseidon's familiar justification for rape is realistically presented as Medusa becomes a woman who knows who she is, even cursed.

    An intimate epic that will spur discussion. I'd love to see this onstage - Medusa and Poseidon are deliciously complex characters that actors and audiences will relish.