Rita Anderson’s High Tea at Medusa’s Court, being staged this weekend at the Overtime Theater, continues the playwright’s inventive distortion of mythological figures, literary giants and pop culture icons into darkly humorous tableaux. Take Anderson’s The 27 Club, a suppositional grouping of Pulitzer-winning poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton who meet Amy Winehouse in limbo. […]
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Overtime Theater’s High Tea at Medusa’s Court offers unlikely mix of characters
In the play, Medusa, soothsayer Cassandra and songstress supreme Billie Holiday meet Photis and Lucius, the main characters of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass.
