An Iliad

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Warfare in all of its bloody, rage-filled squalor springs vividly to life in Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's An Iliad, an adaptation for solo performer of Homer's 24-book poem about the Trojan War, now playing at New York Theatre Workshop.

Directed by Petersen, and performed on alternating nights by O'Hare and Stephen Spinella, the show is a sweeping, visceral theatrical event that not only commands attention from start to finish, but can prove to be a touching ode to the tradition of storytelling and an excursion into the magic of simple stagecraft.

Indeed, from its first moments -- when metallic crashes resound through and shake the theater (Mark Bennett provides the stirring soundsca[...]