The Rage of Achilles

Combining comic, tragic, modern and classical elements, original verse and prose, this world premiere tragicomedy by Paul Parente, provides a worm’s eye view of one of the most exciting and visceral epics ever composed: Homer’s Iliad. In the tenth year of the war, Dimitri and Thano, two Greek Spies, cousins, begin to lose control of the comfortable and profitable détente they have maintained with their Trojan counterpart, Dius. When the plague, a slave girl, a chorus of walking dead, an insecure herald, and a rage-filled, blood-thirsty Greek Hero (guess who) begin to crowd their comfortable No Man’s Land, the spies find themselves having to decide whether it is worth taking a stand or choosing a side in this war not of their own making. Can there be forgiveness and compassion in a place of destruction and death when honor demands bloody revenge? Will the living hear and heed the voices of the dead calling for a way forward? Directed by Damon Bonetti (director of CCTC’s 2008 The Taming of the Shrew)