The audience could play the role of all of Odysseus' lost companions, a
growing chorus. That would give the audience a traditional role to play too.
Beginning with the guy who falls off the ladder at Chez Circe, and swelling
to a climax after the drowining. That way the volume gets louder and louder.
...larger and larger. Not necessarily louder but more full, more insistent.
All the dead people in the audience will be given a rattle. :-)
Anyway, I have always thought of The Odyssey as the comedy. Are we on the
same wavelength here?
What if there are, what, a dozen, twenty special seats in the theaters (or
maybe all of them) that have a plug and and wire and a switch. Every time
that person pushes the button (switch), then their clacker goes sproOONNNGG!
and everyone can hear it. Each chair has its own unique effect--turns
everything a deep wine shade of red for a moment; exclaims with horror, etc.
The chairs can be under the control of someone like a lighting or sound tech
who could bring up the different chairs at an appropriate time.
Have you thought of having a conductor?
Have you established venues?
Jim Terral
South Slocan, BC
http://www.netidea/~jterral/