Theseus & Ariadne 8: “I never imagined such beautiful strangeness…”
Live from Mount Olympus
Onassis Foundation
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As they set sail with the tributes for Athens, Ariadne and Theseus dream of their future together. But a rest stop on the island of Naxos reveals how quickly the Fates can alter the future for humans - and for the gods.
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.
Audio production and mix by John Melillo.
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.
A big thank you to our creative advisors: Dr. Michael Cohen and Richard Nodell.
Mandy Boikou is Administrative Director and Sofia Pipa is Project Manager at Onassis USA. Will McClelland is our production assistant and Gizelle Winter is our series antiquities consultant.
Live from Mount Olympus was recorded with engineers Roy Hendrickson, Ian Kagey, Mor Mezrich, Matthew Sullivan, and Matthew Soares at The Power Station at Berklee NYC.
Press by Grand Communications. Graphic design by Onassis Creative Studio.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on live from Mount Olympus. |
| 0:06.0 | Snakes can talk? |
| 0:09.0 | I speak, but not everyone can hear. |
| 0:16.0 | But remember, my daughter, |
| 0:20.0 | when you feel most alone, your true future will be waiting for you. |
| 0:31.6 | As the crew sets sail for Athens and the newly free tributes rejoice. |
| 0:38.3 | Our young prince takes the beautiful princess into his arms and... |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, brother. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, it's you. |
| 0:56.0 | Dianysus. |
| 0:58.0 | Dianysis. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, parents! Let's talk about screen time for a second. |
| 1:08.0 | I know, I know, but hear me out. We all know we should cut back, |
| 1:13.2 | but here's the problem. What's a good alternative? Lee! Emergency! A kid just wrote a story |
| 1:19.3 | about a shy robot who uses a time-traveling skateboard to save a bunch of talking penguins from a |
| 1:24.1 | super volcano. Uh, Peter, you're right. This sounds like a job for story pirates. |
| 1:28.8 | I was just telling these nice people that story pirates is the number one kids and family |
| 1:33.9 | podcast, where we take stories written by real kids. |
| 1:37.6 | And turn them into absolutely epic musical comedy adventures. |
| 1:41.6 | Like this. |
| 1:42.9 | Cats sit on you. And sometimes they take over the school. |
| 1:48.4 | So instead of handing your kids an iPad, story pirates lets you hand them a brand new adventure |
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