The Odys
sey
“Few sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few are better” (Homer)
When Odysseus went to fight in the Trojan War he left behind his wife, Penelope and his baby. Now, 20 years later, his infant son has grown into a young man. Telemachus has never seen his father. He’s heard stories about the ingenious Odysseus, but he has no idea if the great war hero is still alive. One day a man appears at his father’s court on the island of Ithaca. He is carrying a large portrait of Odysseus with him. As it transpires, he knows the war hero: Telegonus is also the son of Odysseus. Odysseus spent a year living on the island of Aeaea with his mother, the sorceress Circe, after she turned half of his comrades into pigs.
Telemachus and Telegonus are now together, awaiting the return of their multi-faceted father, who has so frequently wandered off course since destroying Troy.
Antú Romero Nunes tells the story of the unreliable narrator, Odysseus, in collaboration with actors Thomas Niehaus and Paul Schröder.
Premiere: Thalia at Gaußstraße, 20th May 2017
A Theater der Welt 2017 production
Die Odyssee. Eine Irrfahrt nach Homer, Theatertreffen in China
„Die Odyssee shatters the holiness of Homeric Hymns.“ - Beijing Daily
„A play full of music, farces and magic that one can enjoy without any prior knowledge of mythology“ - Zhi-gong (contributing critic to Wowtheatre)
19th and 20th May 2020
Theater Winterthur, Schwitzerland
22th and 23th June 2019
Shanghai, China
18th and 19th June 2019
Beijing, China
18th and 19th May 2019
Macao, China
27th April 2019
Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen
23th and 24th November 2018
Prager Theaterfestival deutscher Sprache, Czech Republic
11th and 12th May 2018
Berliner Theatertreffen
4th to 6th January 2018
Santiago de Chile, Chile
