The Odyssey
Painting by Hayley Wood
Double Edge Theatre and the Charlestown Working Theater co-present DET's 10th Annual Traveling Summer
Spectacle The Odyssey at the Double Edge Farm Center, Ashfield MA!
Directed by Stacy Klein,
The Odyssey adds a new chapter to
Double Edge's series of indoor/outdoor,
traveling performances. The Summer Spectacles are known for their lush imagery, sensational staging, and
the sense of magic and wonder they cast over spectators who come from across the world to experience these
incomparable productions.
Audience members follow the stories as they are played both indoors and outdoors
across Double Edge's 100-acre farm – from a stream to a field, from a barn through a garden to a pond, and
ending up under the night sky. They experience actors flying, live music, puppetry–big and small–integrated
into the work, and amazing physicality. The Charlestown Working Theater has partnered with Double Edge on
performances, projects, and training programs for eighteen years.
The Odyssey is co-presented by the Charlestown Working Theater and
is part of Double Edge's current cycle of work inspired by the artist Marc Chagall, who created a series of
original lithograph prints based on Homer's epic poem. In Double Edge's staging, remarkable sets and murals
harmonize with a musical score drawn from more than 2,000 years' worth of songs and chants from Greece,
Albania, and throughout the Mediterranean–a journey mirroring Odysseus's own.
"With each new tableau, enhanced by the minor-key
multipart harmonies of the musicians and character/choristers, you think, How will they top this? Again and
again, they can and do."
- The Boston Globe on The Firebird, 2010
"The audience is left with the feeling of being
transported... to a legendary place where magic is within reach and where the natural world offers unexpected
wonders."
- The Boston Globe on The Arabian Nights, 2010
"Amazing theatre."
- Moscow Times
At Double Edge Theatre
948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA
July 27- August 21 at 8pm (rain or shine)
For tickets, information, and directions visit
www.doubleedgetheatre.org
or call 413.628.0277.
