Arts Over Borders 2018 Brochure

T H E I L I A D
by Homer
Rhapsode (Actor) Niall Cusack
E P I S O D E 1
Friday 10 August, 6.30pm
Outside Walls below Walker’s Plinth
E P I S O D E 2
Saturday 11 August, 1.30pm
grand Parade at Walker’s Plinth
( W E S T FA C I n g )
E P I S O D E 3
Saturday 11 August, 5.30pm
Double Bastion at verbal Arts Centre
( S O u T H FA C I n g )
E P I S O D E 4
Sunday 12 August, 11am
East Wall at Artillery Bastion
E P I S O D E 5
Sunday 12 August, 5pm
Church bastion at St. Columb’s Cathedral ( E A S T FA C I n g )
*Followed by ruby Philogene M B E - Mezzo Soprano & Trevor Burnside - Piano
Concert in St. Columb’s Cathedral | Duration 30mins l Free*
Tickets: £10 | Duration: 60mins
BRIAN FRIEL LOVED HOMER and when it comes to a reading of The Iliad, in
which Homer recounts the story of the Siege of Troy (Ilium meaning Troy)
with Achilles, Hector, Helen, Odysseus & Agamemnon, where better to
hold it than on the Walls of Derry, a city famous for its own siege. Five
episodes from the epic will be read in a military-style tent; the opening
episode will take place on a grassy knoll just outside the Walls overlooking
the Bogside (with its terraced rows of houses reimagined as the camped
tents of the Greeks). The remaining four episodes will be held on different
bastions within the Walls surrounded on the Saturday by the dramatic
soundscape of the Apprentice Boys' marching bands.
To conclude the Iliad readings and as a counterbalance to a weekend of
brutal descriptions of war and its aftermath, a short concert of balm with
spirituals and songs will be given by opera and gospel singer Ruby Philogene,
a first prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and who has sung at,
amongst other places, the Royal Opera House and Deutsche Oper Berlin
and at the special invitation of Princess Diana.
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