Theseus & Ariadne 5: ““Let’s see you try to play games with the Minotaur!”
Live from Mount Olympus
Onassis Foundation
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Athenian tributes' brilliant performance in the second bull dance infuriates King Minos of Crete. His daughter Ariadne faces a fateful choice - will she defy her father? Or will Theseus have to face the Minotaur alone?
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, Keenan Tyler Oliphant, and Josiah Davis, with additional direction by Joan Sergei.
And our actors are:
Eric Berryman
MaYaa Boateng
Sean Carvajal
EJ Duarte
Jill Frutkin
Divine Garland
Adrienne Hopkins
Caroline Hopkins
Natalie Hopkins
Modesto ‘Flako’ Jimenez
Na’Shay Kelly
Julien Heart King
Libby King
Ian Lassiter
Zhailon Levingston
Evalisse Lopez
Kimberly Marable
Jake Margolin
Marcel Isaiah Martinez
James Harrison Monaco
Xavier Pacheco
Joham Palma
Damir Priestley
Angel Rodriguez
Conor Sweeney
Jillian Walker
And André De Shields is Hermes.
The TEAM’s Producing Director is Emma Orme, and Associate Producer is Sabine Decatur. Casting support from Melissa Friedman, co-Artistic Director of Epic Theater Ensemble.
Live from Mount Olympus is written by Nathan Yungerberg with Julie Burstein and Jason Adam Katzenstein.
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Audio editing and sound design by Yonatan Rekem.
Magdalini Giannikou composed our original music which was performed by Banda Magda and mixed and mastered by Luca Bordonaro.
Jason Adam Katzenstein created our illustrations and is series humor consultant.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on live from Mount Olympus. |
| 0:05.0 | Someone said King Minos ordered deadelists to design a temple for the snake goddess to be built so far up in the mountains, |
| 0:12.0 | no one will ever be able to reach it. |
| 0:14.0 | I heard it's gonna be a prison for Queen Pasafay. |
| 0:17.0 | Are we gonna be eaten by the Minotaur? All of you focus on the bull dance, I will deal with the Minotaur. |
| 0:26.6 | If you're the son of the King of Athens, why are you a tribute? |
| 0:30.6 | Princes don't usually have to sacrifice themselves. |
| 0:33.6 | When Agis claimed me as his son and heir, the people of Athens rejoiced. |
| 0:38.3 | But then your father's minions arrived, demanding new tributes. |
| 0:42.3 | So I told Aegis I would go. |
| 0:44.3 | I have more I need to discuss with you, but it must wait. |
| 0:48.3 | You need to get some sleep before tomorrow's bold day. |
| 0:51.3 | One more thing before you go? |
| 0:53.3 | Okay. Yes! for tomorrow's boldly. One more thing before you go? |
| 0:55.5 | Okay. |
| 0:56.4 | Yes. |
| 0:57.8 | Stop. |
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