-Willamette Week

 

-The Seattle Times

 

 

Leave it to Tony-award winning actor Denis O'Hare and visionary director Lisa Peterson to find a way to make the western world's oldest extant work of literature not only intelligible, but immediate, relevant and eerily fascinating-like a barroom raconteur telling literally the oldest story in the book and making you believe it is being told for the first time. Gods and goddesses, weak-tendons heroes and the face that launched a thousand ships…it's all just another (incredibly engrossing) yarn in O'Hare and Peterson's one-man adaptation.

 

Homer's epic tale distilled to one war-torn poet, actor Jim DeVita takes us on a thrilling, wrenching tour of the Trojan War. The intimate Touchstone Theatre is an ideal space for this exploration of the contradictory conditions of glory and violence, and the human race's seemingly endless fascination with war.

 

Created by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson

Directed by Joseph Graves

Starring Joseph Graves