Odyssey Home: Women in the Military

This iteration, performed at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in Boston, MA, USA, was the conference-specific recreation of the performance created as part of a veteran-focused series of programming on the campus of St Lawrence University in Canton, NY. It combined performance with dramaturgical contextualisation by director Erika Hughes. The all-female cast of veterans wove veteran stories and written artefacts together with excerpts from Homer’s Odyssey. The veterans onstage had served in the US Army, Marines, and Air Force. The performance centred on the idea of home, and how that notion changes when one leaves and returns.

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