Pandora 3: “No one else gets to tell the story that defines you.”

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Pandora and Epimetheus are surrounded by a gaggle of adorable granddaughters, who want to know – could their grandmother really be the reason for all the bad things in the world? Only Pandora can tell the real story…

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.
0:04.0	Your father will ask Hephaestus to create something.
0:07.0	I saw a woman.
0:08.0	I thought Zeus only made male humans.
0:11.0	True.
0:12.0	She will be something entirely new.
0:15.0	Pandora, you're ready to go meet your people, the mud men of earth.
0:19.0	No, there are things she must learn before she goes. Things only I can teach her.
0:24.5	Weaving is a noble skill. They will serve you well on earth. What else do I need to know?
0:29.4	Too much. But we have no time. You're bright. I've given you wisdom. You'll learn on your own.
0:37.0	Before you go, though, I must tell you about one more thing. The jar.
0:42.0	Zeus has poured into this jar all the terrible things the God's experience.
0:46.7	Like fire, it contains a curse and also a gift.
0:50.3	Hmm, light and darkness, good and evil, gift and curse.
0:57.0	I knew you be wise.
0:59.0	You'll be able to handle all that's required of you.
1:02.0	You're Pandora. She who gives all.
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