June 26 6:26 PDT
-- Start: Thursday, June 26, 1997 8:56:04 am ATHEMOO time (HST)
Jim turns theater recorder on.
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
[on stage] Juli says, "here's how it works, the prop must be set to 0, then someone goes out on stage and speaks, that activates it"
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
[on stage] the director paces around the auditorium wondering how to solve today's problem
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
Juli arrives looking preoccupied but happy to see you
Juli says, "what do you mean guests, oh, at home"
You hear the distant sound of trumpets blaring. As the fanfare grows louder, you feel the air around you begin to grow warmer. Finally, in grand style TwylaM-S appears beside you.
Juli says, "if you paste me text for a set, i'll create for you so you can tend to your guests"
TwylaM-S says, "Hi, sorry. Should I send the guests here (I mena, not *here*, but the lobby) or elsewhere?"
TwylaM-S says, "Thanks!"
TwylaM-S vanishes with a bright flash and puff of smoke! After her departure you feel a strange void where her warm presence used to be.
Juli places a fragrant plumeria lei around Nothing's neck.
Juli scurries about and changes the set to 'Bareboards Stage'.
Juli walks out on stage...
[on stage] Juli says, "test"
Juli enters from the stage...
Juli walks out on stage...
Juli arrives looking preoccupied but happy to see you
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
Juli says, "good plan"
Juli says, "then i can print and work from there"
Juli places a fragrant plumeria lei around Nothing's neck.
LeeG enters from the stage...
LeeG says, "hi jim, juli"
Juli hugs LeeG.
LeeG says, "we didn't get santiago's files until the last moment"
Jim says, "They are ready to go"
Jim [to LeeG]: That was a question?
LeeG doesn't know for sure?
LeeG says, "georg is that web site working"
[on stage] ambient streetnoise perists but does not interrupt the action onstage
LeeG says, "Jim and Juli, this has been a crazy day in Vienna"
LeeG says, "Thanks for hanging in there"
GeorgL enters from the stage...
GeorgL says, "Hi alkl"
LeeG hugs Georg
Juli grins
Juli hugs GeorgL.
GeorgL says, "Phew thanks for that!"
LeeG says, "georg, is santiago coming"
GeorgL says, "I hope lets page him"
GeorgL says, "rehears is finished"
LeeG says, "how is mon?"
LeeG says, "ready"
Juli [to GeorgL]: how long til curtain pls
GeorgL [to Juli]: 4 mins
Jim [to Juli]: still
GeorgL says, "We are lazte in MMK"
Jim [to Juli]: We don't have time
GeorgL says, "They are beginnnig to shout agin"
Juli [to Jim]: if it's only 4 mins we may not have time to get sets up and may have to go with bareboards one that is there now
[on stage] the director paces around the auditorium wondering how to solve today's problem
GeorgL [to Juli]: Ah that will be okay
Jim [to Juli]: Let's just go with bare boards
GeorgL says, "Friends and honoured guests, "
Juli [to Jim]: i think it's fun, will be ok...sorta like the oudeis group anyway...you could display 1 fron sets to see whole shebang
GeorgL laughs.
GeorgL says, "Sorry"
Juli [to GeorgL]: no don't i haven't brought audience form moo in
Juli [to GeorgL]: shall i tell mooers to come to theatre
Jim scrutinizes scene 'Bareboards Stage' from SETS.
Juli scrutinizes scene 'Bareboards Stage' from SETS.
GeorgL [to Juli]: Yes!
Juli [to GeorgL]: can you wait just a min or two or do we have to go now
LeeG shakes Georg's hand for all his heroic efforts this day
Juli hugs all for heroics all around
LeeG agree with juli
Juli is so excited she can hardly type
GeorgL was gone shortly but is back-.
GeorgL thanks all for the encouragemtnt.
Juli [to GeorgL]: do we have a min or two or must i invite moo aud now
GeorgL [to Juli]: Now! plAse!
GeorgL says, "Music is running in Vienna"
Juli nods
LeeG nods
GeorgL says, "Is curtains up?"
Juli says, "I think it's best for me to stay here, no?"
GeorgL [to Juli]: Yes please stay here
Jim [to Juli]: yes
LeeG says, "yes"
Juli nods, will
GeorgL [to LeeG]: Can you organise Santi
Juli says, "am going to give a few aud instructions with shout now"
GeorgL [to Juli]: Im going onstage in a few secs
LeeG says, "I will page him and see but I don't know if he can be organized"
GeorgL [to LeeG]: page me if I have to wait formhim
LeeG says, "I just paged him. Let's see what happens"
GeorgL walks out on stage...
Among Immortals
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Friends and honoured guests, "Juli leaves in a flash!
SantiagoP teleports in
You see on stage that the curtain is going up . . .
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Friends and honoured guests, "
LeeG says, "hi santiago"
Juli arrives looking preoccupied but happy to see you
[on stage] GeorgL says, "over 2700 years ago the great poet"
Juli smiles, here we go!
LeeG says, "I'll make this simple"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "over 2700 years ago the great poet Homer stood before gatherings very much like the one assembled here this evening."
LeeG says, "after I give my translation"
LeeG says, "You give yours"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "On those occassions his words would fill the room and mesmerize the audience with stories of Odysseus, the man of many turns, as he read from his epic poem THE ODYSSEY."
[on stage] ambient streetnoise perists but does not interrupt the action onstage
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Tonight Homers words will once again fill a room, but they will not be stopped by the boundaries of four walls. No, instead they will travel across the globe "and come back to us in other languages, all within a matter of seconds. "
LeeG says, "Those are the only lines I have so it should be easy to follow"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "For tonight we are introducing you to oudeis - a world wide odyssey."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "This evening we will celebrate the birth of oudeis, and like the gods atop Mount Olympus we will send Odysseus off into the stream of the internet where he will begin his epic journey. "
LeeG [to SantiagoP]: type enter when your name is mentioned
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Joining us in this venture will be members of the oudeis team from all over the world whose virtual presence will be felt as they are connected to us, as we are to them, by the vast ocean of the Internet."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "By communication and interaction they will by their reaction to our words create oudeis, a global theater that uses the internet as a stage not only for development but also as a space for performance."
Juli says, "i hope someone is loggin this"
Juli peeks through the curtains at the audience...
[on stage] GeorgL says, "We welcome the American playwright L.H. Grant who together with Monika Wunderer conceived tonight's performance,"
LeeG walks out on stage...
[on stage] GeorgL says, "the Argentinean composer Santiago Pereson who will provide us with the music of the choros and"
Jim [to Juli]: I am recording it if the recorder will get it
[on stage] GeorgL says, "and has together with exm worked on the screen design,"
SantiagoP walks out on stage...
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Austrian artist Ulli Noe who clothed the cones representing our Characters, and Jim Terral from Canada, who directs the mirroring of our event here in ATHEMOO."
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
[on stage] GeorgL says, "We would also like to welcome oudeis team members Dan Zellner from Chicago, Andrew Garton from Melbourne,"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Athemoo Wiz Juli Burk"
Juli smiles proudly
[on stage] GeorgL says, "TWyla Mitchell Shiner and everybody else joining us"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Our characters are Odysseus, the heroic wanderer, Polyphemos, the Cyclops, Calypso, the beautiful goddess, and Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus. "
[on stage] GeorgL says, "After ten years of war in Troy, the resourceful warrior Odysseus craves nothing more than go"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "going home."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX, 16) Sagen will ich zuerst, wie ich heisze, damit ihr mich kennet"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX, 19) Ich bin Odysseus, Laertes Sohn"
[on stage] LeeG says, "I am Odysseus, son of Laertes"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Soy Odiseo, hijo de Laertes."
[on stage] the director paces around the auditorium wondering how to solve today's problem
[on stage] GeorgL says, "He finds himself in the cave of Polyphemos, where he has just pierced the lone eye of the Cyclops in retaliation for the brutal murder of his companions."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "As the sightless giant stumbles about, Odysseus says to him,"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX 502) Hoer, Kyklop! Sollte dich einst von den sterblichen Menschen"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX 503) Jemand fragen, wer dir dein Auge so schaendlich geblendet,"
B>[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX 504) sag ihm: Odysseus, der Sohn Laertes', der Staedteverwuester, der in Ithaka wohnt, der hat mein Auge geblendet!"
[on stage] LeeG says, "Say that Odysseus, sacker of cities, blinded it"[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Odiseo, el saqueador de ciudades, te ha cegado."
[on stage] GeorgL looks up.
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
[on stage] GeorgL says, "If you point your broser to http://www.oudeis.org/MMK, you will be able"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "to hear original compositions by Argentinean composer Santiago Pereson."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "As well as the originl screens used here in the MMK."
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
Juli shrinks back, hate that one, but hey, this is working well
Juli peeks through the curtains at the audience...
[on stage] GeorgL steps back into his role.
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Enraged, Polyphemos pleads for vengeance,"
[on stage] ambient streetnoise perists but does not interrupt the action onstage
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX 528) Hoere mich, Erdumguerter, Poseidon du dunkelgelockter"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX 529) Bin ich wirklich dein Sohn und nennst du ruehmend dich Vater,"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(IX 530) Gib, dasz Odysseus, der Sohn Laertes', der Staedteverwuester, der in Ithaka wohnt, nicht wiederkehre zur Heimat!"
[on stage] LeeG says, "Grant that the city - sacker Odysseus not go homeward"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Concedeme que Odiseo, el saqueador de ciudades, no regrese a su tierra."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "From this moment, Poseidons wrath fell upon Odysseus and filled his journey with much suffering."
[on stage] the clock indicates it's almost time for a break
Juli cringes....
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "page GeorgL in fact this is where the first stasimon should come..."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "As Odysseus wandered far from his homeland, Poseidon stirred his ocean and crushed his noble companions. Alone and filled with grief, the wind carried Odysseus"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "to the island of Calypso, where the beautiful goddess took him to her bed and offered him immortality. But"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 151) Er sasz am Gestade des Meers und"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V152) weinte bestaendig Ach! In Traenen verrann sein sueszes Leben, voll Sehnsucht"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 153) Heimzukehren; denn lange nicht mehr gefiel ihm die Nymphe,"
[on stage] the director paces around the auditorium wondering how to solve today's problem
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 154) Sondern die Naechte wohnte er noch erzwungen der Goettin bei"
[on stage] LeeG says, "But he slept the nights with her by necessity"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Mas el dormia por las noches con ella por necesidad."
[on stage] ambient streetnoise perists but does not interrupt the action onstage
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Calypso, sensing his misery, said to Odysseus, "
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 160) Armer, sei mir nicht immer so traurig und haerme dein Leben"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 161) hier nicht ab; ich bin ja bereit, dich von mir zu lassen."
[on stage] LeeG says, "do not let Your life waste away, for I should now"
[on stage] LeeG says, "graciously send you off"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "No dejes tu vida arruinarse, pues ahora "
Jim laughs
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "debo liberarte."
[on stage] the clock indicates it's almost time for a break
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Odysseus, thinking only of Ithaca and Penelope, then said to Calypso,"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 218) dich schmueckt ewige Jugend"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(V 220) wieder nach Hause zu gehen und den Tag der Heimkehr zu erleben"
[on stage] LeeG says, "To go home and to see the day of my return"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Volver a mi tierra"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "y ver el dia de mi regreso."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "After seven years with Calypso, Odysseus, once again, took to the sea and continued his voyage home."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "At long last, Odysseus has returned to Ithaca where he has slain the men who defiled his house."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "After twenty years of cruel separation, he and Penelope embrace each other with a passion that has not diminished with time."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Odysseus then says,"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(XXIII, 254) Komm jedoch, lasz uns zu Bett gehen Frau, und lasse uns nunmehr"
[on stage] the director paces around the auditorium wondering how to solve today's problem
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(XXIII, 255) Ruhen in sueszem Schlummer und uns am Schlafe erquicken"
[on stage] LeeG says, "Let us go to bed, my wife, so that now we may lay down and take pleasure beneath sweet"
[on stage] LeeG says, "sleep"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Acompaame al lecho, mi esposa, asi podremos"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "reposar y tomar placer mas alla del suenio."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "And the prudent Penelope addressed him:"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(XXIII, 256) Immer dann sei dir bereit das Lager, wann du in deinem"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(XXIII, 257) Herzen es willst, wenn dir gegeben haben die Goetter"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "(XXIII, 258) Heimzukehren ins stattliche Haus und das Land deiner Vaeter "
[on stage] LeeG says, "The bed shall be for you indeed whenever you wish in your heart, since the gods have made you to arrive at your well established home and your fatherland"
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Nuestro lecho sera para ti "
[on stage] ambient streetnoise perists but does not interrupt the action onstage
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "cada vez que lo desees en tu corazon."
[on stage] GeorgL says, "In a few hours this evening will be nothing more than a memory, but Odysseus will continue his journey, for this is just the beginning of oudeis- a global theater. "
[on stage] GeorgL says, "This September there will be a presentation and workshop at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and in 1998 there will be a world-wide performance which takes place on seven stages, "
[on stage] GeorgL says, "where real and virtual actors will interact with each other from Vienna to Chicago, Buenos Aires to Perth. "
[on stage] GeorgL says, "We invite you to remain with us as the odyssey known as oudeis continues."
[on stage] the clock indicates it's almost time for a break
Juli says, "that time the clock makes sense"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Looks u "
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Thank you."
Juli leaves in a flash!
LeeG enters from the stage...
GeorgL enters from the stage...
SantiagoP enters from the stage...
GeorgL says, "ARRRRGGHHHH 8-D"
SantiagoP says, "ufffffffff........"
GeorgL says, "Lets go out once agin for MMK screen"
GeorgL walks out on stage...
LeeG says, "what was on the screen"
Jim says, "Good job, you guys"
LeeG walks out on stage...
[on stage] GeorgL says, "Thank you. "
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
SantiagoP walks out on stage...
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
[on stage] LeeG says, "thanks everybody"
[on stage] GeorgL says, "We would like to discuss the poerfromance now ."
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
LeeG enters from the stage...
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
[on stage] SantiagoP says, "Gracias a todos."
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
SantiagoP enters from the stage...
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
[on stage] ambient streetnoise perists but does not interrupt the action onstage
[on stage] GeorgL says, "PLease join us in oudeis ship."
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
[on stage] GeorgL says, "OKay?"
GeorgL enters from the stage...
GeorgL laughs
GeorgL turns away. He feels his presence is no longer of any value and decides to leave. After he has gone, his calming effect you enjoyed so much quickly wears off.
You see on stage that the curtain is coming down . . .
<from balcony> <Clap Clap>
LeeG says, "georg what was on the screen, anything?"
<from main floor> <Clap Clap>
SantiagoP says, "georg is not here!"
LeeG teleports out
Jim hugs juli We did it!
SantiagoP teleports out
[on stage] rehearsal lights glare
Jim walks out on stage...
[on stage] the clock indicates it's almost time for a break
Juli arrives looking preoccupied but happy to see you
Juli inspects the SETS...
Juli creates a new set called 'Ithaca: the bedroom of Penelope and Odysseus'.
Juli inspects the SETS...
Juli scurries about and changes the set to 'Ithaca: the bedroom of Penelope and Odysseus'.
Juli walks out on stage...
[on stage] Juli says, "test"
[on stage] .. a glimpse of gray-eyed Athena, smiling ...
Juli arrives looking preoccupied but happy to see you
You see on stage that the curtain is going up . . .
Juli peeks through the curtains at the audience...
Juli walks out on stage...
[on stage] unfinished business with Laertes
Jim enters from the stage...
Jim inspects the SETS...
Jim scurries about and changes the set to 'Ithaca: the bedroom of Penelope and Odysseus'.
Jim scurries in, changes the set to 'Ithaca: the bedroom of Penelope and Odysseus', and scurries out...
-- End: Thursday, June 26, 1997 7:12:46 pm ATHEMOO time (HST)