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JIM MILTON
Nationality: USA
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KingsKings
Synopsis:
This is a new stage version of the Iliad of Homer, Books I & II as adapted by noted English poet Christopher Logue. the production is adapted for the stage and directed by Jim Milton. Two actors in modern dress enact all of the characters, using Logue's savage poetry to create the unsparing world of Bronze Age Greece. Christopher Logue's sprawling, cinematic account of the Iliad, almost fifty years in the making, has been described as "one of the major achievements of postwar English poetry" (Paris Review). This production centers on the conflicts between the Greek king, Agamemnon, and its fiercest warrior, Achilles, in the ninth year of the siege at Troy. With the Greek army encamped outside the walls of Troy, these two vainglorious figures clash over a captured woman. Achilles's bruised honor, the exhaustion of battle, and disease among the troops all combine against the Greek war effort, but the gods' intervention ensures that the campaign survives, culminating in a fierce assault on Troy. More than twenty characters, Greeks, Trojans, and Immortals, will be acted by two actors in contemporary dress, allowing the audience to focus on Logue's savage invocation of a world of terrible beauty and pain.
- nytheatre.com
- nytheatre.com
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1st Produced:
WorkShop theater
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018 11 Mar 2011
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018 11 Mar 2011
Organisations:
Handcart Ensemble, Verse Theater Manhattan and WorkShop Theater Company
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Genre:
75 min adaptationPlay/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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