The Sea, the Sea!

The battle won, but the war lost, in 400BCE a band of 10,000 Greek mercenaries found themselves a thousand miles from home, surrounded by enemies and short on rations. What followed became one of the greatest stories of endurance and bravery ever told.

This set is a telling of Xenophon's "Anabasis", a classic of Greek literature. It follows a band of 10,000 Greek mercenaries who were tricked into siding on a civil war within the vast Persian empire. At it's core it is a story of survival, pitted against betrayal, war, starvation and the land itself. It has an epic quality, and, though there are battles, the emphasis is not on violence or glory, but on humans trying to live against seemingly impossible odds. 

The piece lasts an hour and ten minutes and requires no special staging. The piece was well received at Three Heads in a Well and a video of the performance is available on request.