On the Isle of Naxos, Ariadne guards the labyrinth where her half-brother the Minotaur was interned. Half beast half man, the Minotaur was born after a curse incited Pasiphaë to sleep with a bull.

Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with events in our modern world. The latest such project is a pithy double bill of ...

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According to Greek legend, Athens founder and king, Theseus, found himself in a labyrinth where he was to do battle with the ...

93D. [Theseus’ need in the Labyrinth] solves to THREAD, in reference to a ball of yarn that Ariadne gave to her lover so that he could navigate his way into the maze of the Minotaur and make his ...

We’re on Naxos, where Theseus has killed the Minotaur and Ariadne awaits the hoped-for reward of love and loyalty; as the lights come up we see a giant black wall, hosting a violent slash of blood-red ...