[Reader-list] [Announcements] Off the Mantle #5- The First City Theatre Readings

[Mitoo Das]

OFF THE MANTLE #5

The First City Theatre Readings

 

Homer's ODYSSEY

as retold by Simon Armitage

 

12 March 2008 | 7PM | The Attic -- 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place 
(near The Shop)

Email: theatre at firstcitydelhi.com <mailto:theatre at firstcitydelhi.com> | 
call: 011-46070317

 

 

It took ten years for the Greeks to achieve victory at Troy, and for a 
further ten years Odysseus has been heading home, his journey dogged by 
perilous storms and treacherous landfalls. Now the Gods have decided it 
is time for the wandering hero to find Ithaca ...

 

Part of a wave of recent versions, reversions, metaversions and 
paraversions of Homer, Simon Armitage's jaunty retelling of The Odyssey 
was originally commissioned for BBC Radio. Unlike other recastings of 
this epic by the likes of Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood, Armitage 
does not attempt to translate The Odyssey. His is a radically reduced 
and simplified version, comprised of a series of dramatic dialogues: 
between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his 
unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; between subtle Odysseus 
(wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries - 
Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops - as he and his men are 
'pinballed between islands' by adversity. The First City Theatre 
Foundation is delighted to present scenes from Simon Armitage's 
retelling of this epic, hoping to quicken and revitalise our sense of it 
as oral poetry: as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales.
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