Odysseus has traveled over the waters, flirted with disaster, and bested every foe. And his friends and family hate him for it. As Odysseus tries to escape a fateful prophecy, he’ll face a murderous son, a semi-devoted wife, a scorned sea-witch, a boy with a cow, the cow itself, and a Greek chorus all trying to make sense of their lives when everything has always revolved around Odysseus. Adapted from the fragments of a lost Sophocles play, “Odysseus Dies at the End” examines the life a legend from the perspective of the people clinging to his coattails. Spoiler alert: he dies at the end.
Odysseus has traveled over the waters, flirted with disaster, and bested every foe. And his friends and family hate him for it. As Odysseus tries to escape a fateful prophecy, he’ll face a murderous son, a semi-devoted wife, a scorned sea-witch, a boy with a cow, the cow itself, and a Greek chorus all trying to make sense of their lives when everything has always revolved around Odysseus. Adapted from the fragments of a lost Sophocles play, “Odysseus Dies at the End” examines the life a legend from the perspective of the people clinging to his coattails. Spoiler alert: he dies at the end.
