The Living Theatre in “Prometheus”: A Collective Creation

The Living Theatre In "Prometheus" a collective creation ACT I The Prologue In the Theatre we are bound to the past The Prologue Onstage we speak and move in the cycle of our recent history we have to face once again all the Issues ... which have been with the Living Theatre since the very beginning The House of the Creative Panthea draws a straight line the principles of Euclid drawn by her mathematics, Orpheus emerges singing the colours of light. Hephaestus and Eros, form and feeling , bear Orpheus aloft Hephaestus animates the Dream Machine Panthea disarms Eros why do you hunt? Orpheus invokes the myth the scene is a desolate landscape enter ... Prometheus Prometheus the Firebringer gives us his gifts Power and Force bind him with Aeschylus' words we have come to the end of the earth he cries out everyone is harsh who comes to power The Poet and Prometheus they hear, respond and speak the mechanisms have started their racket the imagination takes flight a bird draws a thread of sky across the empty space between performer and public The Myth Chorus an image-fixed, moving the marble hand at the beginning of time The Encounters of Prometheus he foretells the uses of fire Invention-physical, psychic, social will not your movement lead to violence, Mahatma? the snows of Russia Fire and Prometheus burn and are not consumed summon the enquiry of science The Doctor's Chorus Aeschylus though they had eyes to see ... 41 Pythagoras from the pyramid, arose fire Zeus leads he holds the brain divided by the Furies witnessed in Narcissus' mirror five solids the illuminated mind perceives structure The Titans Prometheus' trick-meat, fat, bones, sacrifice Zeus hurls Prometheus from the company of the gods never to give the power of fire to humankind the dodecahedron atop the pyramid borne by the new master of heaven Metis' Vision of the Skies Gailiea suppression of the women's wisdom with the coded cloth the swallowing of Metis: prison-she lives In Zeus' belly the burning glass-the secret of the spark The Fire Wheel the sun's eye is a burning glass the original light shabbos Promethea chooses the role of the consort Hera the washerwomen at the well wash Hera's veil Egyptian words Zeus sees, through Metis' telescope, the devout lo the arrow of Eros the commission of Hera to Orpheus there Is a story of a woman transformed into a cow I want to hear it now The Ritual of Oriental Theatre Orpheus transforms the stage a philosopherking under a banyan priestess in a pasture an empress in a pavilion the enlightenment of Chiyono: no moon Kung walks: spreading order history has come to be out of 42 control the empress calls upon the magician, Hermes the transformation of lo into a cow Hermes Oceanus the masks of god the mask of Hera lo pursued by the Furies the questions of Prometheus Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer and Simone Well on suffering caught by the Imagination How Can We End Human Suffering the tableau of the Delphic oracle the tableau of the creation of Pandora the stoning of Dionysus the visions of Narcissus' mirror the tableau of women adored the gift of the gods Pandora's box 14 Box Plays: Light and Heat Pandora-The Deadly Female Race Zeus-The Origin of the Laws of Thermodynamics Fire-The Question of the Use of Energy Hera-Several Faces-Lilith, Eve, Hera, Promethea Prometheus-The Accidental Adam, The Accidental Eve Orpheus-Hell Furies-So Many Stones Hephaestus-Dream Machines, War Machines Panthea-Nourishment and Slaughter Eros-Love's Dart Narcissus-Metamorphosis floral Metis-Death and Life In Jali lo-Who Will Pay My Bills? the light billand the gas bill... The Fire Theft that which is left behind is not stolen ... he hidit in a fennel stalk the cities glow the rage of Zeus the binding of Prometheus by Hephaestus take him out of the city the Furies rage what are we going to do with our capacity to decipher the burning signs? we are bound to the past the next act: out of the tunnel INTERLUDE ACT 1i The train and the Ship April 1917-a...