La Odisea

NZ Premiere.

Latino passion comes to Auckland in La Odisea, a spectacular new rendering of Homer’s Odyssey by Bolivia’s pre-imminent theatre company Teatro De Los Andes. La Odisea features astonishing acting and live Bolivian music in a dynamic staging of the classic tale, retold with all the flair and other-worldliness of Latin American storytellers.

La Odisea (The Odyssey) is a spectacular treat from Bolivia’s Teatro de los Andes. Cinematic in scope, La Odisea is a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey in which Ulysses is a Latino immigrant seeking to return to his home and family in Bolivia, after years of working menial jobs abroad.

Ulysses’ return is met with discrimination, racism, and prejudice, an experience common to many returning immigrant workers. His tale, woven together from an array of different storylines, draws upon Teatro de Los Andes’ research of migrant lives, as well as their personal experiences of migration, and life in Bolivia.

Performing to sell-out audiences at the Ibero-American Festival in Bogotá, La Odisea features astonishing acting, live Bolivian music and song, and dynamic staging. It offers an opportunity to experience the otherworldliness of Latin American storytellers, well known for magical-realism in literature, but whose theatre we rarely get to see.

“Penelope weaves and hopes, besieged by opportunists who are corrupt as ever, while her husband Ulysses flees fantastic islands and countries, where the monsters also include those you know well”
- La Nacion (Argentina)

*In Spanish with English surtitles

Photograph: Paolo Mazzo

Event listed by Auckland Festival

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