Iliad: Book One
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 16, 2009
Closed Apr 25, 2009
Opened Apr 16, 2009
Closed Apr 25, 2009
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Nine years after the start of the Trojan War, the Greeks are still unable to defeat their enemy. Agamemnon, the commander clashes with the best warrior, Achilles over the division of war-prizes and is forced to give back the girl Chryseis to her father after Apollo sends a terrible plague. Agamemnon claims Achilles' war-prize Briseis to save face and the furious Achilles withdraws from the fighting and asks the Gods to turn the war against the Greeks.
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With its opening words -- "Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage" -- Homer's epic poem The Iliad sets the stage for one of literature's most harrowing depictions of why we go to war. Supernatural causes notwithstanding, The Trojan War -- that bloodiest of classical confrontations -- is fueled by the pettiness of revenge, lust, and personal vanity. But in the Aquila Theatre's Iliad: Book One, now at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the stage is soaked not in blood or in tears, but with a sodden self-seriousness that treats the material with both too much respect and too little.
Long before we hear that famed opening incantation, we sit through an extended sequence of slow-motion soldiering that is th[...]