Alternately, I could do a play based on Sir Orfeo where our hero must journey through the Underworld (transformed into a Celtic Otherworld) and confront the Fairy King who has abducted his beloved wife Dame Heurodis.
To get a sense of what that would be like, check out the following:
- Piotr Spyra, The Terror of the Threshold: Liminality and the Fairies of Sir Orfeo
- Blythe Hsing-wen Tsai, Appropriating the Classical Underworld: The Otherworld and its Spectacle in Sir Orfeo
- Jordi Sanchez-Marti, Insular Sources and Analogues of the Otherworld in the Middle English Sir Orfeo
- Jane Beal, Orphic Powers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legend of Beren and Lúthien
- Amy Louise Morgan, Fairies, Monsters and the Queer Otherworld: Otherness in Sir Orfeo
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What genre were you thinking for this one if you did it?
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With all the scene changes and special effects this would necessitate (particularly the Fairy Revel/Hunt) I was actually thinking I might write a screenplay, along the lines of an 80s fantasy flick. But before any serious planning or prep happens I want to see how the poll goes.
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I was wondering if you still wanted to maybe do a comedy together. It’s still something I have to do at som3 point in my life. If not, that’s fine. I’ll draw inspiration from watching you
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At some point, quite possibly – but I’m doing this as an offering to Dionysos for the Dionysia.
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That’s totally fine. Besides, comedies are more a Lenaia thing anyways
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Absolutely. And while this story could lend itself to a mirthful telling, I think I want to keep a generally serious tone throughout, to contrast with the more fantastical elements so that wouldn’t really work for what you have in mind.
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I agree with that
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