An Iliad Returns In A Stunning New Setting

UPDATE Thursday, March 12, 3 PM: this event has been postponed. New performance dates will be announced at a later date.

I saw the 2013 production of this show at Court, where the set felt like an ancient subterranean bathhouse-bomb shelter, with Kane’s vagabond Poet delivering his notes from underground. This time, Court has partnered with their Hyde Park neighbor, the Oriental Institute, and artistic director Charles Newell’s staging takes us through several rooms filled with artifacts—including a fragment of part of The Iliad written down in the first century AD.

Through 4/5: Wed-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th, 773-753-4472, courttheatre.org, $125.