Idomeneus

"Troy has fallen -- and the Cretan General Idomeneus is on his way home. But the Gods are angry (aren't they always?) and so now Idomeneus must make a great sacrifice -- but these sacrifices never pan out in the way we'd like them to. Now our General is really in trouble."--Page 4 of cover. ‘A promise is a promise. A promise is a promise.’ Idomeneus, King of Crete, has killed his son. Or maybe not. Maybe he's let his son live, but angered the gods in doing so. Or maybe the person he thinks is his son is an imposter. Maybe his real son actually turned into a talking, shape-shifting sea-creature and is back to have a heart-to-heart. Or maybe it's all true, all at once. A kaleidoscope of monsters, mythmaking and sudden, striking humor, Roland Schimmelpfennig’s smash-hit Idomeneus details the end of a war between nations and the beginning of a war between reason and superstition. Idomeneus makes a promise to the gods, and what comes next is a fractured, mythic tidal wave, brought to life in an inventively staged quest-story.