English Touring Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse stage the world première of their co-production of The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead from September 25 to October 17.
The production reunites Simon Armitage and Nick Bagnall after their recent collaborations on The Last Days of Troy and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
It then tours to venues including Richmond Theatre (20 to 24 October), Brighton Theatre Royal (27 to 31 October), Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe (3 to 14 November), Cambridge Arts Theatre (17 to 21 November) and Exeter Northcott Theatre (24 to 28 November).
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