Fifty women have fled to a villa on the Italian coast to avoid having to marry 50 of their cousins in this modern adaptation of Aeschylus’ Greek tragedy The Suppliants.

Big Love brings a contemporary (and comedic) sensibility to one of the oldest plays in the Western tradition. When the 50 would-be husbands arrive to claim their resistant brides, the women create a shocking plan to fend off the men’s full-on amorous onslaught and escape their ill-fated marriages.