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...really just tried to tell a story,” says Robert Woodruff, director of Highway Ulysses, the new play which premiered last weekend at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theatre (ART). Indeed, the musical tells one of the greatest stories literature has to offer, that of The Odyssey...
...Yeah, we just kind of slammed The Odyssey in there,” he says with slight laugh, “but it’s really about the work of a great American artist and giving him a canvas of this size to work...
Each scene’s connections with The Odyssey is also underscored by a computer projection of the corresponding book title. The projections emanate eerily from the captive Son, played with an appropriately contrasting combination of teenage awkwardness and godly grace and wisdom by Dana Marks...
Urbanic’s odyssey continued as she ran to Kinko’s in Harvard Square, where she found other frazzled seniors as well as a few sympathetic Kinko’s employees...
HIGHWAY ULYSSES. Written by Rinde Eckert specifically for the performance at the American Repertory Theatre (ART), this play combines the talents of the ART Acting Company and the Cambridge-based band Empty House Cooperative to reinvent Homer’s Odyssey in the musical world of jazz, rock and blues. Here, Ulysses is a war-veteran-turned-hermit who embarks on a journey upon receiving an urgent message from his estranged son. Saturday, March 1, through Saturday, March 22. Tickets $34-$68. American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...