Remythed dramatises several mythic tales but not as we know them. The premise is that these ancient stories have only come to feature straight cis characters and so this production sets out to remix, reimagine and reclaim them with “queer truth and joy”.
The operative word is joy. In a show developed by Roann Hassani McCloskey and Joel Samuels, the revisionism is enacted with a rollicking sense of fun and mischief. Both are among the cast of queer storytellers, along with Emile Clarke, Ishmael Kirby (performing as drag king Cyro) and Lucy Roslyn. They start off with a protracted welcome, breezily joshing around with each other, before asking for the house lights to be dipped.
