Iliad: The Song of Thetis
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026
(Thu 6-Tue 18 Aug)
An incendiary retelling of Homer’s Iliad, sung through the voice of Thetis, Achilles’ mother. Two performers fluidly shifting: god/mortal, mother/warrior, goddess/lover, masculine/feminine, collapsing the boundaries of gender, power and fate. Love – maternal, erotic, spiritual – collides with the brutal machinery of war.
Developed through international residencies and informed by artistic exchange with Lebanese and Palestinian artists working amid ongoing conflict, the production refuses nostalgia. Olympus is not distant; it is political, volatile, human. Nearly three millennia later, the epic burns with the same question: who wages war, and who pays the price?
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Theatre
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£10.00 - £16.00 -
6-18 August 2026 -
90 minutes -
Scottish Storytelling Centre Fringe -
Netherbow Theatre -
16+ -
Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Scenes of a sexual nature
