• Medusa review – snakes with overbite

    Dance East, Ipswich
    A retelling of the Greek myth for the #MeToo generation makes some clever points but clobbers them homeIn her new full-evening show, Jasmin Vardimon tells the tale of the gorgon Medusa, a horrific ancient Greek deity whose head was crowned with writhing snakes, and whose gaze turned men to stone. In most versions of the story, Medusa is decapitated by the demigod Perseus; there’s a chilling Caravaggio portrait of her severed head, howling and still sentient. But Medusa

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