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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

The performance features indignant young woman, Penelope, whose famous husband (none other than Odysseus himself) sails away for a journey that leaves her alone for twenty years. This is also the story of Penelope's twelve maids and their murder by Telemachus and Odysseus upon his return. Byatt, Chinua Achebe, and Donna Tartt along Other characters make their appearance as Penelope strolls around the afterlife – including Helen of Troy (Penelope's beautiful and spoiled cousin), Eurycleia (the nanny when Odysseus was a boy), and one of the murdered suitors. Their review opens The Wanderer's week-long series great showing of The Penelopiad. Written by Margaret Atwood Libri Reviewed by Jodie Authors taking part in the Canongate myths series have reinvented their chosen stories in a number of ways. The Penelopiad is Atwood's retelling of the myth of Odysseus (of The Odyssey) from the perspective of Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who waited at home for him for almost 20 years. Some, like Ali Smith, have rewritten a myth in modern language and placed the action in the present. Others, like Su Tong, Margaret Atwood mixes both of these methods together as she rewrites the tale of Odysseus from the viewpoint of his wife Penelope in 'The Penelopiad'. How we see the maids, and how we see Penelope– hell, how we see women in myth– says as much about the story as it does about us. The Wanderer's Goran Miletic and Emerson Csorba attended the Wednesday April 10 performance of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad at the downtown Citadel Theatre. Which is the whole point of mythology. She also debunks some of the myth around Odysseus but giving most things a very ordinary feel. The Penelopiad is part of the first set of books in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths (other authors who wrote as part of this series include A.S.