The gorgon Medusa is one the main characters in Rita Anderson's Hit Tea at Medusa's Court.

Credit: WIkimedia Commons / Livioandronico2013 Rita Anderson's High Tea at Medusa's Court, being staged this weekend at the Overtime Theater, continues the playwright's inventive distortion of mythological figures, literary giants and pop culture icons into darkly humorous tableaux.

Take Anderson's The 27 Club, a suppositional grouping of Pulitzer-winning poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton who meet Amy Winehouse in limbo.