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Simon Armitage on rewriting Homer: Lily Cole's Helen 'is an Iraqi supergun' by Lyn Gardner

His play The Last Days of Troy stars a supermodel, explores Iraq and considers the sexual excitement of war. It's a risk worth taking, says Simon ArmitageIn the poet Simon Armitage's new play, The Last Days of Troy, the supermodel turned actor Lily Cole plays a weapon of mass destruction. Rather, she plays the beautiful Helen of Troy, who humiliates her husband, King Menelaus, and deserts Greece for Troy in the compa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM on May 8, 2014

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