Barbican, LondonHelen Morse and a 200-strong chorus give a majestic ode to the everyday people whose stories are buried within Homer's epicAlice Oswald's 2011 poem, an excavation of Homer's Iliad, focuses not on its gods and heroes but on the 215 ordinary mortals " tradesmen, shepherds, everymen " whose little-known names are contained within the ancient epic.In this staging of that work, they are represented by a 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM on September 30, 2018