As Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey” renews global fascination with Homer, a cast of disabled and nondisabled performers in Greece is staging the war’s other story.
It’s not about the triumph of returning heroes, but the suffering they left behind.
"The Trojan Women,” with a cast of 22, was staged at Epidaurus, the ancient open-air stone arena in southern Greece. It marked what organizers called the first fully accessible performance in the ancient theater’s 2,300-year history.
While Homer followed warriors sailing home from Troy, the playwright Euripides - writing some three centuries later - turned to the city’s ruins and its women, forced into exile and enslavement.
The ancient theater offered a full range of accessibility services for the Aug. 2 performance. Blind audience members received Braille programs, tactile models and live audio description, while deaf spectators followed overhead titles. Physical adaptations also improved access throughout the site.
