After going to see
Curious' World's End at the Chelsea Theatre, I was really taken by Leslie Hill's use of greek mythology to bring to life various aspects of the performance, and it reminded me of various myths that I have wanted to create/perform/do something with at some point in the future. One of these was realised at the BAC Freshly Scrathced festival last November, where I used the myth of Cassandra to delve into fortune telling, and to explain how a lot of our current existence is actually based on trying to predict the future.
With this in mind, I wanted to create a past-present-future trilogy using figures from different mythologies. I am especially interested in
Angus Og - the Celtic God of Love. He was conceived in a day and escaped death by his father's hand by asking if he could live by the river for a day and a night. But because in Celtic, there is no difference between 'a day and a night' and 'day and night', he was allowed to live forever.
I feel there could not only be a performance, but perhaps a photography project in this...
