AN ILIAD by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson was released today, March 25.
In a recent BroadwayWorld article in which O’Hare discusses AN ILIAD and more,Denis says he already has another play in mind after finishing performing AN ILIAD: titled THE GOOD BOOK, based on no less than the Bible itself.
“The reason I want to do it is I’m an ex-Catholic atheist and am obsessed with religion. As an openly gay atheist man, I feel the bible has been used as a weapon against me. I want to understand where it comes from. The history is crazy: the archeology, sociology, linguistics, literary criticism. It’s a rigorous endeavor,” O’Hare relates.
On the topic of AN ILIAD, O’Hare says the writing was organic, revealing, “We stumbled on a method of improvising on-camera and transcribing that for the text. What is the story we can tell? We spent a lot of time arguing about the gods. Should we include them? What characters do we cut? That honing process took years, partly because we weren’t doing it full time.”
Order AN ILIAD by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson on Amazon by clicking below.
Additionally, check out the pdf that gives history and information about the play and it’s source here. It’s a fascinating read.
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