Ithaca Axis Rehearsals

As the opening night looms, Bridges artistic director Nick Young puts the actors through their paces

After sixteen months of workshops, events and competitions, the Bridges Project (funded by the Arts Council) has culminated in a theatrical show The Ithaca Axis - a bold retelling of Homer's The Odyssey.

The Ithaca Axis draws from ideas and themes developed during regular Thursday acting workshops, as well as from a series of art and dance workshops in held in summer 2012 and the Bridges Exhibition.

In keeping with the theme of the Bridges Project, it celebrates the links between Bristol's communities and imagines what would happen if these links were destroyed.

To read more about The Ithaca Axis and how it was turned from a dream to a realisation you can read here.

Pictures taken with Nick Young (Bridges Project Artistic Director) rehearsing with the professional and emerging community cast in the Trinity

main hall.

You can still volunteer with The Ithaca Axis here.

Book tickets for The Ithaca Axis here