Pasadena area residents will be treated to Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s “An Iliad,” based on Homer’s classic monologue “The Iliad,” translated by Robert Fagles, starting on Sunday, September 12, 2 p.m., as A Noise Within theater opens it 2021-2022 30th Anniversary Season.
“An Iliad” is the timeless story of rage and conflict that touches mainly on the Trojan War and the battles and events during the weeks of quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
In Peterson and O’Hare’s version, the lone witness of an ancient and ravaged Trojan battlefield weaves a tale of tragedy and triumph, with an enduring love for every victim of war. The Poet, an eternal being tasked with a passionate examination of deadly conflict, grapples with grief and the dualities of victory and loss, power and fragility, heroism and hubris, in an unforgettable modern take on Homer’s classic.
A Noise Within presented a filmed production of “An Iliad” in spring 2021 and now welcomes you in person for a not-to-be-missed live performance. The play is directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, one of the producing artistic directors of A Noise Within. Her husband Geoff is the other producing director.
The Elliots have decided to choose the theme “The Shattered the Chrysalis” for A Noise Within’s 30th Anniversary Season.
“Change can be joyful or heartbreaking. Change is inevitable. Change is necessary,” the Elliots explain on the theater’s website to introduce the season. “Our world is in the midst of extraordinary change: a year of COVID-19, a time of greater awareness of systemic racism and of confronting violence against Black, Indigenous, people of color; a more aggressive push for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, and more. The world we once inhabited is shattering.”
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