The Odyssey: A Reading

Experience Homer's poem, the way it has been told for millenia - one voice, one room, one epic story.

In a newly abridged poetic version, performer Kate Knott and pianist Irene Nicola will tell the ancient story of Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War and his quest to return home.Tell me about a complicated man

Who, having overthrown the sacred town

Of Troy, was kept from going home, endured

Great suffering on the deep: his life often

In peril, as he laboured to bring back

His comrades to their homes. He saved them not,

Though earnestly he strove; they perished all,

Through their own folly. This is his story.