Spectacle - Odyssée

ODYSSEY - Ulysses wants to go home. After the Trojan War, it's time for the hero to return from battle. Detached from the framework set by the war, the play shows a man in peacetime, questioning his place as a mere mortal on earth. It is through cunning and vengeance that he regains his place as king, husband and father, confronting monsters and gods along the way.

Pauline Bayle's uncluttered staging summons the full power of the imagination, giving the two texts their full power to make Homer's words heard. Words written eight centuries B.C. that resonate furiously with contemporary history.

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