The Last Days of Troy, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange, Manchester: It is perhaps fitting that one of the greatest poems in literary history has been adapted by one of our best-loved living poets. And while it is a little verbose in places, Simon Armitage's greatest achievement is in condensing Homer's Iliad, as well as elements from The Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid, to tell the complete story of the end of the decade-long seige of Troy with …