Portland, OR
An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare
When
WhereCoHo Theatre, 2257 NW Raleigh St., Portland, OR, 97210, United States. Directions
Forecast
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Description from the publisher
“An Iliad is pure theater: shocking, glorious, primal and deeply satisfying.” —Time Out New York An empty space. Enter the Poet. He has a story to tell—one he’s been telling for thousands of years, drifting through countless taverns and across countless stages. He invokes the Muses and fills the empty space with a tale at once grandly mythical and strikingly familiar. Is this a story of antiquity or a story of today? Told entirely by two performers, a poet and a musician, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s An Iliad remixes Homer’s tale, bridging the ancient with the contemporary. In turns humorous and tender, violent and harrowing, An Iliad is a vital examination of the human compulsion towards war, a passionate interrogation of the toll war has on our humanity, and a testament to the power and potential of storytelling.
From Portland Area Theatre Alliance, who publish it in their own public calendar.
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