Gilgamesh-in-Irvine

(first told circa 2750 BC) commonly known as “the oldest story.”

One thousand years before Homer wrote the Iliad, the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia produced the epic story of Gilgamesh. We planned to explore and present it in public workshop in the Grotowski Barn in Spring 2020 in preparation for full production Spring 2021. And our project, like so many others during the covid pandemic, was re-imagined:

Source Text- Gilgamesh, version by Stephen Mitchell