Eros & Psyche – Fairytales for Grown-ups at The Forge

Socrates doubted it...

Eros made sure of it...

Aphrodite excelled at it...

& Psyche thought about it all the time...

Merging myth, fairytale and raucous Greek philosophy - performance storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton undresses the myth of Eros and Psyche to ask ‘what is love… ?’

While Socrates and his friends have a drinking party and debate the purpose of love with sharp, incisive humour – in the Other World a power play of beauty and jealousy is underway between gods and humans. Aphrodite, the goddess of love expects to be worshipped, so when the beautiful mortal Psyche begins to attract too much attention, Eros is sent with a quiver full of arrows and ill-intent to seek revenge, but in a darkly comic twist he falls in love with her himself.

Combining Classical mythical romance with Plato’s Symposium, this raunchy, compelling performance of spoken word and sound, questions our ideas of beauty, suffering, and the choice to live.

‘She delights in subverting her audiences’ expectations…’ The Independent