The Trojan War has been going on for nine years when Homer's account begins in The Iliad. Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes have been developing their version of the story, using Christopher Logue's War Music, for nearly half as long. True, when they staged The Persians by Aeschylus for National Theatre Wales in 2010, Iliad was not yet on the agenda, but now they say that a through-line is clear from that production to t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32PM on September 16, 2015