The award-winning Mark Bruce Company, whose dance theatre production of Dracula performed to sellout audiences across the country in 2013 and 2014, opens its new production at the Merlin Theatre, Frome on 4 February 2016.
The Odyssey, Homer’s epic poem written over two thousand years ago about the ten-year journey undertaken by Odysseus after the fall of Troy, is given the Mark Bruce Company dance theatre treatment.
During his struggle to return home, the King (Christopher Tandy) faces the wrath of a reckless god (Jonathan Goddard) who drags Odysseus on an epic journey across oceans to strange lands and the darkness beyond. Immortal beauties, shape shifters, monsters and sorcerers both guide and torment the king as he hurtles towards a savage and desperate reunion with his queen (Hannah Kidd).
The cast and creative teams that produced Dracula present a vision of a broken world: from faded New York pageants to islands of fantasy, brutal seas, battlefields and a gateway to Hades.
Set to music ranging from Mozart to Mark Lanegan, sacred arias to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and an original Mark Bruce-composed score, this Odyssey aims to present, "contemporary horror and fantasy splintering from ancient myth, the headlong collision of universal themes, the encounter with mortality and the gods within."