Everyman, LiverpoolThis timely adaptation has a Europhobic prime minister, Odysseus as a politician turned migrant " and a dead pig jokeLast year, Simon Armitage boldly gave us a version of The Iliad in The Last Days of Troy. Now, he turns his attention to The Odyssey, and the parallels are fascinating. Like its predecessor, this new play combines a modern framework with Homeric myth, encapsulates key events from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AM on October 1, 2015