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Performance

VenueThe Pit, Barbican Centre
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From19th May 2001
Opened22nd May 2001
To2nd June 2001
WhenMay 19 at 14:30, Mat 20 at 17:00, May 22 at 19:00, May 23-Jun 2 at 19:45
PricesFrom £10.00. To £10.00.
The Pit, Barbican Centre (V372)
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Odyssey - Greece in Britain

Odyssey

Work:: Odyssey (S1204604818)


Production:: Greece in Britain (T738044075)

Introducing Karagiosi - stage manager and interpreter of the tale of Odysseus, adventurer, wily Greek of legend and a man in search of his homeland. Andreas has a different odyssey in mind: his family's... His is the story of the Litras family; of the man who migrated to Australia after the Greek civil war, the Greek girl who left home to marry him in a foreign land, having seen only his photograph, and their son Andreas. Theirs is a tale of quiet domestic heroism, of hard work, fitting in and making do. The line between epic drama, Greek tragedy and comedy and the everyday almost disappears in this autobiographical work which cuts effortlessly between the two sagas of the search for home. The stagecraft is inventive, where a loo brush and a suitcase can become the Trojan horse or the possessions of a migrant. Litras plays a variety of characters: his father, his mother, himself, Karagiosi as well as the odd cyclops, shifting between them seamlessly.
Company Anthos Theatre
Author Andreas Litras
Author John Bolton
Performer Andreas Litras

Listing:: L495530357

BITE: 01.



Greece in Britain

Introducing Karagiosi - stage manager and interpreter of the tale of Odysseus, adventurer, wily Greek of legend and a man in search of his homeland. Andreas has a different odyssey in mind: his family's... His is the story of the Litras family; of the man who migrated to Australia after the Greek civil war, the Greek girl who left home to marry him in a foreign land, having seen only his photograph, and their son Andreas. Theirs is a tale of quiet domestic heroism, of hard work, fitting in and making do. The line between epic drama, Greek tragedy and comedy and the everyday almost disappears in this autobiographical work which cuts effortlessly between the two sagas of the search for home. The stagecraft is inventive, where a loo brush and a suitcase can become the Trojan horse or the possessions of a migrant. Litras plays a variety of characters: his father, his mother, himself, Karagiosi as well as the odd cyclops, shifting between them seamlessly. BITE: 01.

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