Sherman theatre, CardiffTim Price's play links a 1980s coal miner with Odysseus in an affecting if heavy-handed mythological drama Forty years after the 1984 miners' strike, Tim Price's play maps Homer's Odyssey on to events that already carry the weight of their own mythology. Our Odysseus is Welsh miner John O'Donnell (Rhodri Meilir) who is subjected to the caprices of unseen authority figures and must journey to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM on October 17, 2024