there is another suggestion for the sequence of scenes of our script:
The Wanderings of Odysseus told in a chronicle way,
which would be opposite to the technique Homer is using.
Homer had his reasons (I would love to discuss them later) to use the
technique of throwback narrative,
I consider that theater sometimes has its reasons to tell the stories
linear (I come back to this)
chronicle story of Odysseus would be:
after a ten years war in Troia
* land of the Cicones
* country of the Lotus-Eaters
*! the Cyclops
*! island of Aeolus (king of the winds)
* island of the Laestrygonians - cannibals
*! island of Aeaea: home of Circe
*! Hades
* passing of the island of the Sirens
* Scylla and Charybdis
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*! Ogygia: home of Calypso
* the Phaecians
*! Ithaca - coming home
The idea, why we changed our mind about the sequences was influenced by
John Neumeirs balett "Odyssey". Gernot and I went to see this show in
Hamburg and found out that after working on Homers Odyssey the whole day
none of us knew exactly every moment where the story was going. We did have
to look it up in the programme several times. John Neumeir uses Homers
story in the way it is written - with all throwbacks, and made a really
great balett out of it! But sometimes I had wished to understand more of
the ongoing on the stage.
So, especially in a theater performance where the tools are restricted like
in our case, I think we have to choose the easierst plot to remain
understandable.
What I think we want to tell is the Wanderings with Homers words (probably
to use the wanderings of Odysseus as a metaphore for the Data wanderings
??) and not the epos and its frame structure.
To show all of these scenes will probably last to long (we scheduled an one
hour performance time) Maybe the narrator could tell more than really
happens on stage ( i do not like this solution) ...
We choosed the marked ! scenes.
suggestions? comments? corrections?
Santiago, you once sent an useful structure of the first books of Homer.
Where did you get them from? Maybe we could expand these now on the choosen
Books / Scenes.
Mon
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