Medusa Incarnate

Smart, keenly observed. Delicious imagery.

- Robyn Cohen (The Cape Robyn, 2018)

Pinchuck served us Medusa like we’ve never seen her before. She gave such a powerful performance that to say she was “charismatic” would be an understatement

- Toby Ngomane (Cue Media, 2018)

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Winner of the 2018 Standard Bank Ovation Award

Medusa Incarnate is a one-woman contemporary retelling of the classical Greek Medusa myth. Starring and written by comedian and actor Kate Pinchuck, the play picks up where the mythology leaves off, and we find Medusa in Hades, the Greek underworld, talking to the audience as a fresh boatload of dead souls who have just crossed over the River Styx into death.

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Kate Pinchuck

Creator/Writer/Performer

Kate Pinchuck is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian. She has an Honours degree in Theatre and Performance Studies specialising in Acting, Contemporary Performance and Scriptwriting from Rhodes University (2015). Notable roles include Isabel in Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! at Artscape (directed by Roy Sargeant, 2017, 2018), Hortensio in the critically-acclaimed all-female The Taming of the Shrew at Maynardville (directed by Tara Notcutt, 2018) and SUSANN in the Ovation Award winning Gaslight at the National Arts Festival Fringe (directed by Laine Butler, 2018). Kate has been rising up in the comedy scene in Cape Town and Joburg. She recently taped a line-up comedy special for Mannequin Films, Laugh At First Sight, set to premiere on DSTV Box Office in early 2019. She was featured in the 2017 Next Generation Showcase at Grand West, was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Savannah Show Us Your Apples competition and performed in the televised 2018 Comics Choice Awards Newcomer Showcase at the Soweto Theatre.

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