‘Penelope’ Musical Brings Emotional Depth to Homer’s Odyssey Through Female Perspective

Penelope review – Odysseus’s other half sings of her own twists and turns

Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh Grace McLean brings vocal and emotional range in the central role of Alex Bechtel’s Homeric song cycle She is the one played by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the central figure in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and the inspiration behind a 2010 play by Enda Walsh. And here she is again, this time alone with her thoughts, a longsuffering woman in white, in a seductive song cycle by Alex Bechtel. Penelope is played by Broadway actor Grace McL...

By Mark Fisher