Once upon a time, in the early days of Christianity, on the dark, Northern edge of civilization, there was a brave king named Arthur who held court in Camelot and defended Britain against invaders.
Think of all the wars you've ever heard of across the millennia, right through the current conflict in Syria. How long would it take you to name them? That banal task occupies roughly three minutes of stage time for the haggard Storyteller in the one-man "An Iliad" at the Studio Theatre, long enough that you may finally tire of this mopey play's generic antiwar refrain.
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