Pandora 2: “I knew you’d be wise! You’re Pandora - she who gives all!”

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Athena gets to share her story of Pandora’s creation, and includes a few juicy twists and turns that few have ever heard before.

Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation. Karen Brooks Hopkins is executive producer. Our series creator and showrunner is Julie Burstein. Live from Mount Olympus is co-produced by Brooklyn-based theatre collective The TEAM. Our co-directors are Rachel Chavkin, Zhailon Levingston, and Keenan Tyler Oliphant, with additional directing from Sara Blush.

And our actors are: Rolls Andre, Ato Blankson-Wood, Sean Carvajal, Jill Frutkin, Abel Garcia, Divine Garland, Monée Cherie Hunter, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, Libby King, Ian Lassiter, Zhailon Levingston, Christina Liberus, Kimberly Marable, Jake Margolin, Lizan Mitchell, James Harrison Monaco, Gregg Mozgala, Xavier Pacheco, Maya Sharpe, Kristen Sieh, Ahmad Simmons, Nedra Marie Taylor, Eirene Tuakora, Ching Valdes-Aran, vickie washington, and André De Shields is Hermes.

Special thanks to Adrienne Hopkins, Caroline Hopkins, and Natalie Hopkins.

The TEAM’s Producing Director is Emma Orme, and Associate Producer is Sabine Decatur. We thank the artists and leaders of Epic Theater Ensemble for their continued collaboration!

Live from Mount Olympus is written by Nathan Yungerberg with Julie Burstein and Jason Adam Katzenstein.

Audio production and mix by John Melillo. Audio editing and sound design by Yonatan Rekem. Magdalini Giannikou composed our original music which is performed by Banda Magda. Jason Adam Katzenstein created our illustrations and is series humor consultant.

A big thank you to our creative advisors: Dr. Michael Cohen, Richard Nodell, and Effie Tsiotsiou.

Mandy Boikou is Administrative Director and Sofia Pipa is Project Manager at Onassis USA. Gizelle Winter is our series antiquities consultant.

Live from Mount Olympus was recorded with engineers Roy Hendrickson, Ian Kagey, Mor Mezrich, Matthew Sullivan, and Benjamin Miller at The Power Station at Berklee NYC. Press by Grand Communications. Graphic design by Onassis Creative Studio.

Special thanks to Beth Clancy for letting us record her warp-weighted loom and to David Goren for field recording.

Live from Mount Olympus is distributed by PRX.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Previously on live from Mount Olympus, I will command a festus to craft something evil wrapped in beauty,
0:10.0	so that the muckety mud men shall delight in cherishing their own destruction.
0:17.0	Ha ha ha!
0:20.0	Who am I?
0:21.0	Pandora, my dear.
0:23.0	Pandora, whatever you do.
0:26.0	Don't ever, ever, open that Pythos.
0:32.0	Never open that jar.
0:37.4	Farewell now beautiful.
0:39.2	They have a good life.
0:40.6	The king of the gods allowed all the terrible contents of the peoples to escape into the world that day.
0:50.0	Hermes, you got Pandora's whole story, oh rung.
0:53.8	Calm yourself, Athena.
0:56.2	I will tell the real story.
0:58.2	No cooking nor cleaning.
1:00.2	No beautiful evil.
1:02.0	I will set Pandora's record straight. Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and distributed by PRX.
1:27.0	I have the mic now. I guess you do.
1:28.0	What do you plan to do with it?
1:30.0	I'm going to tell the real story, not the he-seid nonsense you've been peddling.
1:36.0	Sometimes you can be so boring, Athena.
1:39.6	I'll be surprised if you find this boring. I knew about Pandora long before Zeus ever dreamed
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