Theatre | The Guardian: In his opening monologue for The Lotus Eaters, the first episode of the National Theatre’s forthcoming multi-location production of The Odyssey, actor Tony Dudley enthuses about a statue of Perseus in Trentham Gardens on the fringes of Stoke-on-Trent. It’s one of many ways the production is rooted in the place it was created, in order to reimagine the Greek epic for audiences across England.
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I am always interested in seeing how adaptations of different types of media go, whether they are successful or not, what people think of them, if they modernize the source material or not. I think that this is the most interesting adaptation of The Odyssey that I have heard of yet. I think that it has so many moving parts that it is inevitable that something about it will not work. The use of multiple playwrights one each for the different parts of the epic with each one from the area that that part is going to be produced in is a very cool idea. I am just concerned about the continuity of the story with some many different playwrights. And if I am understanding correctly, they are modernizing at least some parts of the epic so it will be interesting to see how exactly they do that. I think it is great that the thing as a whole has a dramaturg for all of the parts together.
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