How do you talk to children about war? How do you talk to adults about war? We should be living in a civilized present, where people learn from history and war would be a museum-like entity, and no one would even think that it would exist in our days. But it does, in various parts of the planet and, as it seems, can easily be reignited.
Andreas Flourakis returns to the ancient-themed literary reservoir composing "a delightful, entirely his own Iliad, promotional (in terms of acting, directing, set design, costumes, choreography, music, lighting) for its contributors and predominantly joyful for its recipients (audience, teachers, and students)," according to K. Diamantakou.
K. Diamantakou continues: "Ending, like the original Iliad, with Priam's visit to Achilles and the return of the dead Hector to be buried with honors by the Trojans, but moving beyond the Homeric narrative, into the post-Iliadic time covered by other epics and in which the fatal injury of Achilles by Paris occurred and the fall of Troy by the Trojan Horse.”
Andreas Flourakis uses the same parodic tools that he had in the Odyssey (deconstruction of heroic figures, metatheatrical interruptions and breaches of theatrical illusion, spatiotemporal fluidity, puns, accumulation of verbal and visual anachronisms, parallel actions, etc.) and invites us to see in a different light the inherited characters from their continuous (literary and educational) repetition, as he believes that this specific work of Homer is more relevant today than ever.
