Night Journey promises much, delivers less

Night Journey, by Martin Jones and Gregory Light, is currently playing at the Arts and Letters Club as part of the Fringe. An elderly professor is teaching a class on interpreting Homer’s Odyssey to four students in a basement storage room. All five are facing their own demons and are in the class for varied reasons. Slowly, despite pedagogy as ancient as the text, they find a way of finding meaning in the Odyssey, or at least in the actions of Odysseus, and begin to confront their own demons. So far so good.

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