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At Studio Theatre, the retelling of Homer’s “The Iliad” as a one-man play explores the power of rage.
The Trojan War took 10 years to fight and had its origins, years before, on the day Zeus set his sights on a pretty young thing, turned himself into a swan, knocked her up and fathered a half-divine, half-human daughter named Helen, the girl with the ship-launching face. But the Iliad doesn’t start there. Its early pages take readers to the final few weeks of combat.
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This is a remarkable review of a new telling of the story, with resonance in the new age we are in