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HIGHWAY ULYSSES. This adaptation by American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Woodruff follows a modern-day Ulysses as he travels to retrieve his son, who is being held by state social services after the death of his mother, Ulysses??€™s ex-wife. The play takes a powerful and bleak journey through a mind tortured by a violent, war-filled past. Based on the prototypical road trip saga, the show is simultaneously the poignant memoir of an abused wife and mother and a commentary on the myths of war and heroism. Daily at 7:30 p.m. except Mondays...
...music also implies an inability to move on that accompanies the psychological make-up of many war veterans, especially those who fought in Vietnam. Although the name of the war is never actually mentioned, it is clear from the Ulysses??€™ age and contemporary setting that this must be the war to which he is constantly referring...
...title suggests, this adaptation follows a modern-day Ulysses as he travels to retrieve his son, who is being held by state social services after the death of his mother, Ulysses??€™s ex-wife. The play is a powerful and bleak journey through a mind tortured by a violent, war-filled past. Based on the prototypical road trip saga, Highway Ulysses is simultaneously the poignant memoir of an abused wife and mother and a commentary on the myths of war and heroism...
What Eckert and Woodruff leave us with is an appropriate, salient message in this time of impending war. To paraphrase Ulysses??€™ intense iteration in the haunting final trio of the show, “For every Hero who comes home, a thousand more die in vain...
...true star of the evening, however, is Nora Cole as Ulysses??€™ dead wife and the mother of the Son, simply called The Bride. Literally shining in her sparkling white wedding gown, Cole’s performance is marked by confident ease and elegance as she swims effortlessly though Eckert’s difficult and cyclical music, shifting from soulful low notes to a clear, ringing soprano...