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Fall 2000
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International Theatre Program Stages Epic Production of Iliad

A 3,000-year-old epic of war, love, betrayal, anger, and the whole range of human emotions took center stage as the International Theatre Program presented the world premiere of its adaptation of the Iliad.

One of the program's most ambitious projects, the nearly five-hour production was performed in two parts, each presented on alternate evenings last winter.

"The Iliad has held up for almost three millennia because, at root, the themes and images continue to be modern and contemporary," says Nigel Maister, associate director of the theater program, who adapted the performance from the award-winning translation by Robert Fagles.

"It's much more than just a war story," Maister says. "It deals with universal emotions--love, betrayal, courage, defeat, fear--and how those are expressed. On a fundamental level, it's about parents and their children, especially the relationships between fathers and sons. It's a rich, extraordinary story."

The production used video, slides, music, movement, and three-dimensional and moving puppetry to depict the wide scope of the story, which moves from the Greek camp to the seat of the gods on Mount Olympus to the plains around Troy and inside Troy itself.

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