Prometheus 1: “Was that the party where Uncle Kronos threw up all his kids?”
Live from Mount Olympus
Onassis Foundation
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🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Kronos, king of the gods, throws a party that spins out of control. When Prometheus tries to convince his fellow Titans not to go to war, the results are disastrous.
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.
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| 0:55.0 | The Greek gods live high on Mount Olympus. |
| 1:01.0 | But from time to time we walk among you mortals and wherever the |
| 1:08.0 | guards move stories are born. |
| 1:13.7 | This story begins, well, sometimes the best place to begin a story is at the end. And so that is where our next story will start. Let me |
| 1:27.2 | transport you from the comfort of my guards-pods studio to the top of a craggy mountain high above the Black Sea far from Greece. |
| 1:40.8 | It's late afternoon, three figures are climbing up the steep slope. |
| 1:46.0 | The Ah, the trio has spent all day ascending the huge windy peak. |
| 1:52.0 | In the lead is Kratos. Perhaps you remember him, |
| 1:58.0 | Sticks his son loyal to Zeus and the Olympians. Kratos is effortlessly bounding from a rock to rock, |
| 2:07.0 | carrying an enormous hammer. |
| 2:10.0 | Behind Kratos, trudges Hephaestus, God of the Forge. |
| 2:17.0 | Prometheus is just too smart for his own good, |
| 2:20.0 | so now I have to chain him up. |
| 2:22.0 | Hephaestus is limping badly. |
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