An Iliad

In 2027, he’s taking this herculean, era-defining performance on an odyssey around the country.

Wenham stars as The Poet: a wry, world-weary storyteller who is tasked with recounting one of Western Literature’s greatest tale – that of the Trojan War – over and over again, through the ages. Finally, after millennia of walking through battlefields, trenches and cities torn to the ground, he attempts to quit telling this story.

Led by one of Australia’s most innovative directors, Damien Ryan (Sport for Jove), and accompanied live on stage by polymath musician Helen Svoboda, this is Melbourne’s chance to experience “the dark magic of masterful oral storytelling” ( The Guardian ) and the “electrifying” ( Stage Noise ) one-man performance at its heart.