Telemachus, Darling

By Patrick Barrett

Telemachus, Darling is a tender exploration of the life of an eight-year-old boy following his father’s death at sea during World War I. Twining together the dreams and realities of young Darling’s life with episodes from the story of Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, this play is a strange, poetic look at loss, its tolls and redemptions, in the lives of two young men.