A play about a boat, performed on a boat. Revolutionary, logistically tricky, and rife with ultra-awesome potential. We Players triumphs yet again with another site-specific performance - Homer’s classic seafaring adventure, performed on an 1891 scow schooner named Alma. For its latest ambitious project, local theater troupe takes audiences on a ride through the seas - physical and metaphorical - of Greek poetry.
Condensing Odysseus’s ten year journey into a three-hour sail around the San Francisco bay, cast and crew blend real-time wrangling of Alma’s sails with Homer’s epic journey of gods and sirens. Definitely a new way to experience both The Odyssey and boats.
September 17-November 18. Hyde Street Pier. Tickets are $160 at weplayers.org.
