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Arts & Entertainment

An Iliad

On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell Homer’s The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. The elements are familiar — the 10-year siege of Troy, the Greeks and Trojans locked in a brutal combat, the heroic and final battle between Achilles and Hector. But this storyteller points at something more in the epic text. In this eye-opening version, we are on the front lines of every major war in history, reliving a futile struggle that has replayed itself over thousands of years. An Iliad transports us through time to feel the glory and honor of war — as well as the loneliness and pain it leaves in its wake.

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