Echoes, Etcetera Theatre – Review

“This is a story of a woman. Of women. Stories from a times supposedly different from ours. Myths, that may or may not have happened. Depending on who you choose to listen to.” The Ancient Greeks knew a thing or two about the human condition. While it wasn’t a gynocentric culture, its observations about men and women have served as the archetypal templates for psychology and other social sciences. With this in mind, Echoes – Lieve de Putter’s latest play ­ – looks at the feminine archetypes in Classicist literature, and draw parallels between them and women in contemporary society. For context, the myths of Ancient Greek/Roman culture conform to Émile Durkheim’s notion that the gods were created in Man’s image and that far from adhering to a higher form of moral conduct, they exhibited the same foibles that ‘ordinary’ people have. In terms of the central women and men in particular stories, it wasn’t just the mythological monsters they had to face – it was the ‘higher authorities’…