![]() ![]() ![]() He grows to age 17, bleakly miserable, tortured by Minos, finally imprisoned in the iconic maze even his sister Ariadne can’t break him out, and eventually he falls to Theseus. You want a prude.” Angry at king Minos, he considers direct revenge (“Boils! / Scabs! / Gills! / A snout! / his / Ding-dong / Inside / Out!”) but instead gives Queen Pasiphae “a thing / For the white bull’s thang.” Asterion the Minotaur is born. Poseidon dominates in word count and attitude: if “ou think a god should be more refined? / … / Never / Bawdy / Raunchy / Racy / Rude? / News Flash: / You don’t want a god. ![]() In a series of dramatic monologues with no settings, Elliott updates the voices of Poseidon, Minos, Daedalus, Pasiphae, Asterion, and Ariadne, each in its own poetic form. A saucy, brash retelling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |