THEATRE REVIEW: An Iliad: War’s horror and heroism in Alan Committie’s take on Homer’s epic

2026-03-04 - 05:13

Unstuffy, primal, urgent and deeply compelling, the one-man play is an evocative modern-day, colloquial spin on the ancient bard’s epic account of the Trojan War, shot through with an overriding sense of humanity’s tragic inability to shake off its lust for the violence, carnage and chaos inflicted by military action.