Echo

a short play inspired by the greek myth of Echo and the tradition of the stocks, the pillory and the gallows

Still from the short play Echo

Norma Cohen as Echo

Echo started life as a ten minute play written in just 48 hours. The piece was inspired by the story of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It formed part of the Cold Writing Festival, a strand within Ovid Reworked: The Brixton Project, and was presented in an empty-shop within Brixton market.

Since then the piece has been developed further with showings as part of Sounding Off at the Vitrine Gallery and the scratch night PILOT in Birmingham.

Echo explores themes of torture and public punishment. The piece continues to be developed over the course of 2010.

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