{"id":78829,"date":"2026-08-24T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:04:10","slug":"sydney-theatre-companys-an-iliad-starring-david-wenham-to-play-melbourne-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78829\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Theatre Company&#8217;s An Iliad starring David Wenham to play Melbourne in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artscentremelbourne.com.au\/whats-on\/2027\/theatre\/an-iliad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-151958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/STC-An-Iliad-David-Wenham-photo-by-Daniel-Boud.jpg\" alt=\"STC An Iliad David Wenham photo by Daniel Boud\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydneytheatre.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sydney Theatre Company<\/a>\u2019s 2026 hit An Iliad starring David Wenham will play Arts Centre Melbourne\u2019s Playhouse for a strictly limited season from 18 March 2027.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This gripping, new production of Lisa Peterson and Denis O\u2019Hare\u2019s adaptation of Homer\u2019s Ancient Greek saga mesmerised Sydney audiences with an astounding, five-star, sold-out run of this \u201cmasterclass in storytelling\u201d (Limelight).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Led by one of Australia\u2019s most innovative directors, Damien Ryan (Sport for Jove), and accompanied live on stage by polymath musician Helen Svoboda, this is Melbourne\u2019s chance to experience \u201cthe dark magic of masterful oral storytelling\u201d (The Guardian) and Wenham\u2019s \u201cstupendous tour de force\u201d (The Australian) performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wenham stars as The Poet: a wry, world-weary storyteller who is tasked with recounting one of Western Literature\u2019s greatest tales \u2013 that of the Trojan War \u2013 over and over again, through the ages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, after millennia of walking through battlefields, trenches and cities torn to the ground, he attempts to quit telling this story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Iliad will play the Playhouse \u2013 Arts Centre Melbourne from Thursday 18 March \u2013 Sunday 11 April 2027. Tickets are now on sale. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artscentremelbourne.com.au\/whats-on\/2027\/theatre\/an-iliad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.artscentremelbourne.com.au<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Image: David Wenham stars in An Iliad \u2013 photo by Daniel Boud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Theatre Company\u2019s 2026 hit An Iliad starring David Wenham will play Arts Centre Melbourne\u2019s Playhouse for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1174,1164,1168,1172,1165,1175,260,1163,1171,1169,1170,1173,1166,1177,1167,1162,1176],"class_list":["post-78829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-belvoir","tag-book-of-mormom","tag-destination-nsw","tag-fortyfivedownstairs","tag-kooza","tag-la-boite-theatre","tag-melbourne","tag-meow-meow","tag-midsumma","tag-muck-rack","tag-ngv","tag-opera-australia","tag-publication-media","tag-rocky-horror","tag-the-lion-king","tag-theatre","tag-todd-mckenney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}