{"id":731,"date":"2009-10-08T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2009-10-08T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:03:42","slug":"theater-homers-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Theater: <i>Homer&#8217;s Odyssey<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/09\/14\/theater\/Home190.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; margin: 7px; float: right\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handcartensemble.org\/\">Handcart Ensemble<\/a> should be congratulated for much about this production, and not least for seriously telling the story of the <i>Odyssey<\/i> \u2013 in most of its rough essentials anyway \u2013 in under three hours.  The acting is very good and the production inventive and engaging, but playwright-poet Simon Armitage&#8217;s text,  originally written for a BBC radio production, is the biggest star, simultaneously elevated and gutbucket, Homeric and homespun.  Shadow puppets, glorious costumes, haunting songs, a chilling trip to Hades, and an old-fashioned, barrel-chested, egotistical hero just like they used to make &#8217;em (David D&#8217;Agostini <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">is<\/span> Ulysses) \u2013 this show&#8217;s got just about everything. The galumphing puppets are a trip, too. Closes Oct. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handcart Ensemble should be congratulated for much about this production, and not least for seriously telling the story of the Odyssey \u2013 in most of its rough essentials anyway \u2013 in under three hours. The acting is very good and the production inventive and engaging, but playwright-poet Simon Armitage&#8217;s text, originally written for a BBC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Theater: <i>Homer&#8217;s Odyssey<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}