The Io Passion

About the show

A man outside a house and a woman inside watch and wait; he posts a letter as she swats a fly. Their scene repeats in increasingly complex variations, revealing their meeting at Lerna and the myth of Zeus’s seduction of Io, whom he changed into a heifer to hide from Hera. Hera’s gadfly drove Io across the world. In the present, the woman refuses the man and clings to domestic routine, while the ancient gods and the man continue to intrude, stripping away her settled life.