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Description: This video contains highlights excerpted from a full length theatre piece.nnBased on the Greek myth of Philomela as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and more currently eschewed by the poet Ted Hughes, this piece begins with a modern ‘Greek chorus’ of 4 talking heads that recites the basic tale: a young woman, Philomela, is raped and her tongue is cut out by her brother-in-law, Tereus, a king who then confines her to a lodge in the woods. Philomela reveals the crime to her sister by workin