Die Odyssee

An odyssey according to Homer

"Few sons are truly like their father,
mostly they are worse and few better."
(Homer)

When Odysseus left for the Trojan War, he left his wife Penelope behind with an infant. Now, 20 years later, the son has matured into a young man. Telemachus has never seen his father. He knows stories about the resourceful Odysseus, but he does not know whether the great war hero is still alive. One day, a man appears at his father's farm on the island of Ithaca, carrying a large portrait of Odysseus. It turns out that he knows the war hero: Telegonos is also a son of Odysseus. Odysseus lived with his mother, the black sorceress Kirke, on the island of Aiaia for a year after she had turned half of his companions into pigs. Telemachos and Telegonos now await the return of the versatile man who has been driven from his path so often since he destroyed Troy.

Together with actors Thomas Niehaus and Paul Schröder, Antú Romero Nunes spins the tale of the unreliable storyteller Odysseus.

A production as part of Theater der Welt 2017

Duration 2:10h, no intermission

Premiere May 20, 2017, Thalia Gauss

Invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2018