Creative team Alexander Wright & Phil Clive Grainger, professionally known as Wright&Grainger, bring their newest retelling of ancient Greek mythology, Selene, to the Courtyard of Curiosities, in partnership with UK theatre company Theatre@41 and South Australian theatre artist and producer Joanne Hartstone Presents.

In this powerful one-woman show - accompanied only by music, lighting and the voices of the audience - Selene, the goddess of the moon, is reimagined as a mother working nights, while her child, Pandia, comes of age on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors.

Pandia (also known as Panda, continuing Wright&Grainger’s delightful convention of providing fun nicknames to classic mythological figures) is outspoken, nonconformist, and weighed down by society’s expectations that envelops their small-town life. Panda spends her time watching videos of the moon landing (over and over again), listening to Fleetwood Mac, and determinedly refusing to bond with one of her classmates, despite their shared obsession with the moon.

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Above all, Selene is a story of hope. It is a reminder to value our short lives, finding moments of beauty in the mundane and every day. It is a reminder that we reflect the people we surround ourselves with, and yet we are whole with or without them. Most inspiring of all, Selene reminds us of our power and agency, so that we can create our own way in life, turning the imagined into something true.