ODYSSEY

Theatre Ad Infinitum reinvents the timeless Greek myth. One actor. One hour. One man’s epic quest to reunite with his family and seek his bloody revenge. This is an Odyssey where words merge almost seamlessly with arms and hands and voice and a magnificent creature of a face, by turns demonic and beatific. Hisses, plosive blasts, sinewy twitches and squirms lead us from one episode to the next, and it is these shapeshifting sounds and actions which take the place of those famous Homeric formulae, the 'wine-dark sea' and the 'rosy-fingered dawn', creating a new rhythmic framework which glues this telling into a fluid whole. A strong, steady Odysseus transforms into a gently falsetto Nausicaa and an effete, high –camp Eurymacchus, (leader of the suitors), and we listeners laugh with delight at the transformations and the quickness of our guide.

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