Athena's Self Defence For Girls To Be - Relevant to Modern Day Humans

In Greek mythology, Athena is the goddess of just warfare, strength, strategy and skill.  Though Athena is a goddess of war strategy, she dislikes fighting without purpose and prefers to use wisdom to settle predicaments. The goddess only encourages fighting for a reasonable cause or to resolve conflict. 

It is these traits that the show written by Michael Doherty and performed by Jennifer Huva is based on. The show begins with Huva entering in ancient Greek dress complete with helmet and spear to emphasis her war like status amongst gods. Athena assembles an audience of soon to be born souls who are destined to be girls and therefore need her encouragement and guidance to be able to enter the world and defend themselves. Athena demonstrates how to "not throw like a girl" and how to precisely and effectively hit an assailant. 

The play is well executed with Huva delivering a clear informative thoughtful monologue on the need for self defence and its relevance in present day society, complete with skilful demonstrations on a martial arts dummy. It is a short half hour piece but does well to remind us of the history both real and mythological that precedes us.