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**** Three Weeks, 7th August 2003 

I was dreading this. A solo, one-woman performance, involving puppets, drawing on a Greek myth and dealing with the subject of female empowerment? I was sharpening my pencil for a bad review. But I was very very pleasantly surprised. This was an excellent piece of theatre, with equally excellent direction. It was saved from descent into a dull feminist rant by the powerful performance of Lushin Dubey - though diction wasn't always as clear as it could be - and the added cultural dimension provided by the Asian production made it all the more relevant. It was, however, the rudest audience I've had the pleasure to sit amongst so far this year, with mobile phone noise and chatting throughout.