An exhibition at the psychoanalyst’s London home and two new stage shows have reopened the debate on women’s desires
Female psychosexual drama of the classical kind is currently stalking the London stage to rave reviews in the form of Lesley Manville’s Jocasta, in Oedipus, and Antigone, played by House of Dragon star Emma D’Arcy in The Other Place.
These performances, in productions cleverly updated from ancient Greek, both push the boundaries of transgressive behaviour to shocking effect, courtesy of Sophocles. It is a good time then, for an exhibition in the same city to look anew at the limitations once set on female desire.
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