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AN ILIAD
By Lisa Peterson & Denis O'Hare
Music by Patrick Neil Doyle
Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden and Guy Roberts
Starring Guy Roberts as the Poet with Fanette Ronjat and Jessica Boone as the Muses
US PREMIERE (this production)
4-14 January, 2018
Main Street Theater Company, Houston, Texas

CZECH REPUBLIC PREMIERE
24 January, 2018
Estates Theatre, presented in association with Narodni divadlo
Prague, Czech Republic

***
"Houston's theater season, thanks to Guy Roberts, is off to an epic start this year."
*****
"Lasting over an hour and a half with no intermission, this fascinating take on the politics and victims of the Trojan War never lags, and that is because of Guy Roberts' tour de force performance that will take your breath away. (He also co-directs this show with Rebecca Greene Udden). His mercurial transformations as the Poet (who might also be a victim of PTSD) dramatize characters ranging from the enraged Achilles to the noble Hector to sultry Helen (described as just "being more beautiful than someone else") to the pitiful Priam. This procession of characters is a master class in classical acting, and his range of movement is formidable: one minute almost balletic, the next, bordering on violent, the next, rhapsodic."
*****
"a personal, confessional story conveying the violence and pathos of war."
*****
"you realize the necessity of theater to contribute to philosophy and politics, with the stage always doing a better job than statistics, talking heads, or policy papers at dramatizing the stakes of something."
*****
"Really, this production does the impossible in making the epic less remote. The music makes the message more suspenseful, more intense. It is psychological inquiry of the highest order"
Houstonia Magazine

Featuring virtuosic performances and original live music from an exciting original composition by Patrick Neil Doyle, An Iliad is a tour-de-force evening based on Homer's epic poem of love, battle, gods and honor exploring humanity's unshakable attraction to violence, destruction and chaos. Has anything really changed since the Trojan War? The war in Troy is over – and the Poet saw it all. Back from the frontlines in an empty theatre, The Poet, who is perhaps Homer himself, spins a tale of unquenchable rage, quarrelsome gods, and grieving widows. An Iliad weaves humanity's unshakable attraction to warfare with the music of the muses, capturing the contradictory conditions of glory and violence with spellbinding modernity.

This play is performed without an intermission. Approx. running time: One hour and 35 minutes.

Marketa Fantova & Adam Thornton - Scenography, Přemysl Janda & Adam Thornton - Light Design, Eva Bellefeuille - Costumes, Rodney Walsworth - props, Jacob Sanchez - Sound Engineer, Brad Caleb Lee - Assistant Scenography, Mark Roberts - Technical Director, Eric Sammons - Production Stage Manager