AustLit

'Odyssey weaves the stories of Andreas Litras' migrant family through the legend of Odysseus, hero of the Trojan war. While Andreas shares his stories of family and fish'n'chips, it is the character of Karagiosi, the wise-cracking stage manager, who throws everything out the window and has the audience in hysterics with his own personal rendition of Homer's Odyssey.

The two narrative threads contrast and compliment the other. Odysseus is desperately attempting to return home and Andreas extended family (mother, father, aunts and uncles) have left home and Greece forever and will never return. The central theme of the play is the nature and question of home, of belonging, of family. Journeys and characters cross paths as the performance moves between Andreas and Karagiosi, past and present, Greece and Australia, memory and imagination.' Source: http://www.nexusarts.com.au/view_performer_teacher_notes.php?id=69 (Sighted 23/3/2012)