The Penelopiad

City Garage continues its 35th anniversary season with The Penelopiad by feminist icon Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale. In this remarkable retelling of The Odyssey, Atwood transforms both the power and the politics of the classic tale by shifting the point of view to Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, and of her 12 faithful maids unjustly hanged by the returning “hero.” It takes place in Hades, where these 13 spirits are trapped for all eternity, telling and retelling their story like angry furies, unable to find redress for what they suffered at male hands.