Theseus & Ariadne 6: “You're giving me Labrys? The sacred weapon of Knossos?”
Live from Mount Olympus
Onassis Foundation
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Ariadne must confront her mother, Queen Pasiphae, and enlist Daedalus and Icarus in her plan to help Theseus survive.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on live from Mount Olympus. |
| 0:05.0 | The bull may have chased me, but I believe you're the one who's in danger, Ariadne. |
| 0:11.0 | What are you talking about? You're going to be sent to be eaten by the Minotaur in two days' time. |
| 0:17.0 | During the banquets, some of my team heard stories. They overheard nobleman |
| 0:22.0 | talking about Minos building a new temple for your mother high up in the mountains, a temple |
| 0:27.5 | that will be her prison. The snake goddess has ruled our island for thousands of years, represented |
| 0:33.7 | on earth by my mother, by her mother before her, and one day, by me. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, that may be, but Prokitos and Manesto heard that your dad plans to marry you off to some foreign king and send you far away. |
| 0:47.3 | The only person I would ever consider leaving Crete for is standing here with me in my dream chamber. I like that. Care for some more? Maybe later. |
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| 1:46.7 | Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and distributed by PRX. |
| 2:00.0 | Aha! The kissing continues! And I can tell that Theseus and Ariadne are now more concerned |
| 2:08.2 | about each other than they are about themselves. My arrows kindled a bigger love than they've |
| 2:14.7 | ever kindled before. You may be surprised, Eros, but there's a lot more to love than just pricking people with arrows |
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