Odysseus

In the organizer's words:

Heroism often lies on the great names of antique fabrics like a shimmering protective film that makes it difficult to reach into the depths. But what happens when we try to see through the shimmer, to peel it off layer by layer? This odyssey does not want to tell a story of success, if anything the opposite. It points to the cracks in its protagonist's skin and digs into them with its hands. Odysseus appears as a man wandering around, driven by the trauma of war and the search for a home, who, if you look closely, is not free of fear. It's quite a burden to always play the hero! But perhaps there is also something dazzling in failure.

In this one-hour monologue play, Mila Suttree paints an idiosyncratic and multi-layered portrait of one of the most famous figures of Greek antiquity.