A new play based on Emily Wilson’s translation tells the epic story through the experiences of young women refugees.
, for NYTW, wasn’t particularly interested. She felt there were plenty of versions of the ancient tale of Odysseus’ ten-year quest to get home to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War for a decade., the first one by a woman into English. It made her think an adaptation might be a good way to explore something she was interested in — telling a traditional male hero’s journey through a female prism., which Peterson also directs, opens at the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, Calif.
Wilson’s translation made those issues clear, Peterson says, adding that Wilson writes in her introduction about“I was really struck by how Odysseus has this series of experiences of landing in someone else's environment and the difference between the way that, say, the king and queen of the Phoenicians welcome him in and say, ‘What do you need? Here's some food and what can we do for you?’” she said.
Wilson, a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, says the story also made her consider the pressures that make people migrants and who gets to choose to go home.as a poem that in many ways anticipates our current moment of globalization and forced movement of peoples from one place to another through war and climate change crisis and a whole range of other reasons.
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