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Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

The Odyssey

28 Mar 2001 – 31 Mar 2001

Performance Dates

28 Mar 2001 – 31 Mar 2001

March 2001

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28, 29, 30, 31 March

Details

Playwright
Derek Walcott
Director
Gillian Jones
AddressNewcastle St Annexe, WAAPA, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley
Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott's stage version of Homer's Odyssey is an exuberant fusion of the traditional Greek tale with Caribbean landscape and culture. Often bawdy and hilarious, the play makes the journey of Odysseus home from the Trojan War memorably theatrical, and includes satirical side-swipes at a few overly-revered cultural institutions including colonialism and patriarchy. As Helen of Troy so accurately puts it: "Men. They'll me for everything now."

matinee Sat 31 March 2pm

Bookings

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