“…in this impeccably acted and produced virtual reading…the playwright fools around merrily with the story’s origins, imagining a whole new approach to the ancient myth that turns it into a feminist comedy with an unexpected outcome.”
From the minute Laurel Ollstein’s new play, “Pandora,” opens, you know you’re in good hands.
A professor (a steely-eyed Mary Beth Fisher) in a Zoom frame launches into a Greek Myths 101 lecture, complete with sound effects and slide projections.
Hapless Pandora, as we know, opened a forbidden box and unleashed evil into the world.
As the professor explains, Pandora was the first mortal woman. She was created by a decree from the all-powerful god Zeus, ostensibly to punish his son Prometheus for defying him, and in effect to punish humankind forever. “It’s all our fault, ladies, right?” cracks the professor. “You wanna know how this story should go? Watch this!”