Fires (marguerite yourcenar) - full performance - by aleksandra malivuk | Aleksandra Malivuk

SOLO PERFORMANCE - based on the motifs of the eponymous book written by Marguerite Yourcenar - adapted by Aleksandra Malivuk Five women. Five lives. Five deaths. Five confessions. Five poems about love. Five women burned in the fires of their own blood. Five profoundly intimate stories - about choices and consequences, shame and dignity, despair and suicide, revenge and remorse, crime and punishment, quest and salvation. And above all, about love and passion - uncompromising and total, crazy and fatal, reaching dizzying and dangerous heights. Five famous and influential women from the ancient past are tried afresh, before the today’s court and jury , even though previously tried and convicted, even though they condemned to death both themselves and others, especially their loved ones. They are now re-examined for the actions they committed and fight to have their voices heard again. The accused are: 01:40 Mary Magdalene - accused of whoring; 16:30 Antigone - accused of rebellion; 25:56 Phaedra - accused of a crime of passion; 35:50 Clytemnestra - accused of cold-blooded murder; 51:16 Sappho - accused of bisexuality