Event | Odyssey | ||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC | ||||||||||||||||
Umbrella Event | Melbourne Festival 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
First Date | 27 October 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 27 October 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 1 November 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||
Description | A woman of twenty leaves her village and travels for three months to a new country to marry a man she has only seen in a photograph. Caught between two countries, two cultures and two languages, the journey has just begun.
Andreas Litras' remarkable one-man show Odyssey turns the mythical world of Homer's epic upside down. The stories of his migrant family are woven through the legend of Odysseus in a performance which is stunning in its irreverance, passion and joy. Performed in Greek and English, Odyssey embarks upon a journey that takes the audience into the world of the migrant and my |
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Description Source | Brochure | ||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||
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Biographical
Bi-lingual |
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Migrants
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Text Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 100821 | ||||||||||||||||
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