Alkitsi Pitsaki's reimagining of the tale of Αριάδνη / Ariadne, in their eponymously titled play, re-centres the Cretian sister of the Minotaur in an ancient yet timeless production that parallels the feminine struggle for identity, voice, and to be remembered, that persists today.

Emerging on stage in veils of red, three actors are bound by red threads around their wrists and unfurling from their hands. It is something out of another story at first glance, the trio speaking in riddles about time and destiny, conjuring images of the Μοιραι, the Fates. It is a haunting beginning, us thrust into the tangle of Ariadne's mind as she is torn between saving her brother, the Minotaur, from his suffering…