Euripides' Cyclops: Not your average one-eyed Cantabrian

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When:

Tue 29 Jan ’08–Sat 2 Feb ’08, 8:00pm

Where: Old Queen's Theatre, 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch City

Website:

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Christchurch audiences will be treated to an evening of lechery, buffoonery, cowardice, drunkenness and overall lack of decorum and sophistication when a rarely staged ancient Greek satyr play opens at the Old Queens Theatre later this month.

Euripides’ Cyclops deals with the story, made famous by the epic poet Homer, of the encounter between the Greek hero, Odysseus, lost on his way home from Troy, and the man-eating one-eyed ogre, Polyphemos.

The production is funded by the University of Canterbury’s College of Arts and translated and directed by Dr Patrick O’Sullivan and Associate-Professor Robin Bond, both of the University’s Classics Department. The timing of the production will coincide with the 29th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies at Canterbury from 27 to 31 January.