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The Odyssiad
27 May 2024 to 29 May 2024
About The Odyssiad
By Alex Thomas
A Magdalen College School Drama Production
1200 BC. A woman waits and watches the sea from a clifftop. She is Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, who has yet to return from the Trojan War after ten years. Their son, Telemachus, wonders whether he will ever be able to fill his legendary father’s place.
1902. A young Cambridge student, Winifred Kennedy, digs in the ruins of Mycenae, the heartland of ancient Greece, under the stern and watchful eye of archaeologist Henry Allen. Teddy, his son, loathes everything about the ancient world, so Winifred takes it upon herself to bring the past alive for him, drawing father and son closer together.
Her vivid story-telling takes us back three thousand years to the epic world of Homer’s immortal tales, The Iliad and The Odyssey, where great warriors clash in single combat, and a city’s fate hangs in the balance. Odysseus’s perilous journey home after the war is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.
With a powerful rock-inspired musical score, including original songs and electrifying choreography, this new telling of the Homeric epics is a true spectacle.
Tickets
Please see important booking information below.
Booking information
Dates & times:
Thursday 27 June at 7.00pm
Friday 28 June at 7.00pm
Saturday 29 June at 2.30pm and 7.00pm
Prices:
Adult – 16.00
Child – £11.00
Age guidance: 7+
Duration:
120 munites, including an interval.
Content warning:
This show contains violence (within the context of battle), strobe lighting, gunshots and smoking.
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