Wilton’s Music corridor,London
Bruce’s adaptation of the epic tale has boogieing skeletons, an S&M disco queen and music from Mark Lanegan and MozartWith its dark monsters, or fickle gods and shapeshifting women,Homer’s Odyssey is perfect terrain for the myth-making imagination of Mark Bruce. From the moment we see his nightclub version of Hades, with a bicep-pumping underworld God backed by a chorus of boogieing skeletons, and this adaptation promises to be fun. With the aid of his excellent design team,Bruce has compressed Homer’s epic into a two-hour show, and located it somewhere between myth and contemporary fantasy. The stage is dominated by a circular frame, or which serves as an entrance portal for the characters but also hinges outwards to form the shape of Odysseus’s boat. As the action shifts between Odysseus’s long voyage and the palace where his wife awaits him,Bruce’s considerable achievement is to find a language that makes viscerally explicit how brutal and horrible much of that tale is.
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Source: theguardian.com