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The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead review " Simon Armitage plunders Homer for political drama by Michael Billington

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

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