A live performance streamed to your home, AN ILIAD By Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare  is a play about friendship, honoring the dead, and stopping cycles of violence. A storyteller cries out in the woods for a muse to help tell the story of the Trojan War. Will they get the assistance they need? Will they finally end this cycle of violence? Friendship, laughter, tears, music, and tequila help this 100-minute story unfold. Filmed on a socially-distanced set in Athens, OH.

Directed by David Cromer’s assistant, Emily Penick, the play was rehearsed in a field, with cast and crew masked, and staged to keep actors at least ten feet from one another. Then, Ukrainian cinematographer Anastasiia Kulikalova stepped in to translate the play to film.  AN ILIAD  was shot on a socially-distanced film set in rural Ohio.

Tickets to the three streamed performances are free with all donations going to Vibrancy Theater , a new Black and Indigenous POC ensemble in Athens, Ohio. Members of Vibrancy Theater worked on or appeared in the film.