Hurricane Can’t Sidetrack Odysseus At Lawrence Academy

Several days of intense storm hasn’t hampered Lawrence Academy Theatre’s presentation of “The Odyssey: A New Theatrical Telling of Homer’s Epic Story,” which will be performed Thursday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the Richardson-Mees Performing Arts Center. Performances are free and open to the public.

About 3000 years ago, a blind Greek itinerant bard named Homer sang his epic poems to the accompaniment of a lyre. He sang of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home from Troy to his home in Ithaca where his son Telemachus and wife Penelope waited. In modern times, this story has been retold in countless versions and translations, in prose, poetry, film, dance, theatre and music. Lawrence Academy students have created their own version over the last seven weeks, finding each day the movement, sound and words that would tell the story in their own theatrical way.