Sundays at Noon and Classics Now present : The Odyssey

From the sculpture hall of the Hugh Lane Gallery, admission is free.

Join us to watch new episodes from Gavin Kostick’s dynamic adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey take shape, in our special work-in-progress presentation performed by dance artist Megan Kennedy and Gavin Kostick, with an original live score by composer Andrew Synnott.

‘At seven years old I was again in a new school and reading The Odyssey in the playground. It was dark, enclosed, and I was leaning against a rail that kept the older children from the younger ones. A boy came over and smacked the book out of my hands and stamped on it. I still have the book - the old Penguin Classics version - with the little footprint visible. There's something in that incident about adventurers and observers, but I still can't quite say I've worked it out. I do know I appreciated the other boy's perspective – it was playtime, I should have been playing tag. He was the Achilles of the situation. But the otherworld, the world of gods, was so full and rich and I would wholly live there if I could. If only there was a way of bringing the world of doing and the world of dreaming together.’

Gavin Kostick

In partnership with Sundays At Noon Concert Series, Dublin City Gallery: the Hugh Lane

www.classicsnow.ie/2023-events/the-odyssey