War’s timeless ache – death, captivity, the agonizing wait and the pull of home – has found a new stage in wartime Kyiv, with Homer’s epic reimagined as a contemporary Ukrainian odyssey.

A new production of the “The Odyssey” in wartime Kyiv reimagines Homer’s epic through the experience of modern Ukraine.

Video. A Kyiv theatre is reimagining Homer’s Odyssey through the lens of Ukraine’s war. Odysseus, Maeotis draws on the experiences of Mariupol defenders and former prisoners of…