'Highway Ulysses'.(Previews Coming in September)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, July, 2003 by Eckert, Rinde
Rinde Eckert is skeptical about just how much of a hero literature's original hero, Odysseus, really is. "His failures are legion," the composer/playwright points out. "Even the Trojan Horse, his great scheme, was an incredible mistake." That doesn't mean Odysseus isn't an interesting guy.
"His cunning or trickery makes him a quintessentially modern figure"--just the kind of leading man who belongs in Eckert's contemporary ...
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