NEWS
“ A Poem and a Mistake, a whiplash black comedy, is about what we inherit from the stories passed down to us. It’s a one person show that starts with a confrontation between Myrrha, a grad student in the classics, and her professor, over the fifty sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Their combustive exchange sparks a cascade of magical transformations that force them both to rethink everything. It’s ‘Freaky Friday meets the classics.’”
—Theatre and Tonic
Cheri Magid is set to take audiences at The Edinburgh Fringe on a magical rollercoaster ride of transforming gender, sexuality, and desire, with the UK premiere of her critically-acclaimed play, A Poem & A Mistake.
Directed by respected Mexican-American theatre, television, and film director Michelle Bossy and performed by award-winning actor Sarah Baskin, A Poem and a Mistake blasts into the Scottish capital this Summer for a run at The Assembly Rooms from July 31 to August 24.
—The Scotsman
The Sydney Morning Herald
“You’ll never think of classical literature again without these women coming into your head…”
Alexis Grenell, The Nation
"A Poem & A Mistake is a one woman show that's impossibly fascinating the whole way through. [the play]... ‘intends to speak of forms changed into new bodies,’ in transforming a universal mythology for the modern era to ask: How does sexual violence change us? It will blow your mind."
July 31 - August 24, 2025
A Poem and a Mistake plays at Assembly Rooms (Drawing Room),
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
August 7, 8, 9 & 10th, 2024
A Poem and a Mistake plays at HERE - Dorothy B. Williams Theater in NYC
September 18th, 2023
A Poem and a Mistake is featured at “And All That Remained Was Her Beauty” at UCONN’s Contemporary Art Galleries. In the galleries in Storrs through October 20th, 2023.
March 20th, 2023
Sewanee University presents two live performances of A Poem and a Mistake, Sewanee, TN
February 25th, 2023
Delaware Rep presents a live performance of A Poem and a Mistake, Delaware Rep, Newark, DE
November 15th, 2022
The film/play of A Poem and a Mistake screened at Upstate Films in Saugerties, NY
October 23rd, 2021
Bard College and Upstate Films co-present a screening of A Poem and a Mistake, Upstate Films, Rhinecliff, NY
September 14th, 2021
Click to listen! A panel discussion about A Poem and a Mistake hosted by Alexis Grenell of The Nation, New York University and ACCA, with Cheri Magid, Sarah Baskin, director Tamilla Woodard, and classicist Stephanie McCarter for ACCA’s podcast series.
August 27th, 2021
Click to listen! A conversation with Cheri Magid and Stephanie McCarter about A Poem and a Mistake for ACCA's podcast series. Click to listen!
August 27th, 2021 - November 14th, 2021
The film/play of A Poem and a Mistake now showing at Australian Centre of Contemporary Art from August 27th - November 14th 2021.
January, 2021
Cheri Magid and Stephanie McCarter interview on the podcast Modern Metamorphoses