'Memorial' at Barbican Theatre, London
Directed by Chris Drummond, "Memorial" is an intense elegy for each of the 215 dead soldiers named in Homer's epic. Based on Alice Oswald's novel of the same title, the story reflects of the author trying to retrieve Homer's 'Iliad' enargeia, which translates as "bright, unbearable reality", and writes that she is doing this "as you might lift the roof off a church in order to remember what you are worshipping". Her …