MC MytholOG - Midas, Medea, Jonah*, ATOWT, Last Gasp, Homeric, Icarus, Murph*, Herc, Orpheus, Dayz*

The prologue to Cassandra! wherein the god Apollo, in a sketchy quid pro quo, gives the accursed gift of prophecy to the innocent, lovely Cassandra.

Those Gossips, again! MC version of the Epilogue to emulate.

MC's quick version, just begging to be emulated.

The title says it all. Inspired by a bit of research and by Nathan Evans shanty The Wellerman, this touches on aspects of the father of our country during the American Revolution and imagines what a shanty might sound like for the cause. Enjoy - it is brief, but IMHO of course, catchy!

For those who need neither the entire play nor the discrete Acts of Accursed Philoctetes , here are Parts I & II. Part I addresses events which lead to the abadonment of Philoctetes on Lemnos. Part II the fraught return of the Greeks to retrieve Philoctetes and the bow. Enjoy these iterations of Accursed Philoctetes .

For those desiring neither the whole play nor the discrete Acts of Accursed Philoctetes . .. Part I of Accursed Philoctetes addresses only how and why the Greeks abandon the keeper of the great bow of Hercules. Part II takes up the return of the Greeks and the resolution thereof. Enjoy this iteration of Accursed Philoctetes.

This is the full, extended version of Accursed Philoctetes. How and why you may ask could there be a full play about a spinoff story from the Trojan War Cycle? How and why would you find this myth about a middling Greek hero whose fame/notoriety is due to the stench from an infected foot worthy of your or anyone else's attention? Philoctetes is not exactly heroic, more of a victim, and he whines a...

In this final episode of Accursed Philoctetes , the son of Achilles, Neoptolemus, attempts to regain the lost trust of Philoctetes and thereby help the desperate Greek cause. Will Phil listen or has he been burned too much to be reasonable, much less rational? Is there really a cure for what ails Philoctetes? Physically? Psychically? Speaking of sanity, what advice does the bow of Hercules offer P...

A statement and some questions. FOMO is real.  But often buried beneath that fear is the hope of inclusion or even a do over.  In this episode of Accursed Philoctetes the Greek heroes Odysseus and Diomedes, who abandoned Philoctetes years ago, return to the isolated cave where he had previously sequestered himself.   What kind of a reception will he give them? Does he still have his sanity intact?...

In this episode of Accursed Philoctetes, two great Greeks, Odysseus and Diomedes, heroes in their own right even before they reach Troy, must make the difficult decision to bring nasty Philoctetes along or not.  Without driving their crews to mutiny. Without getting shot themselves by Philoctetes. With or without the legendary bow of Hercules.  With or without Philoctetes’s permission.  With or wi...

This is the first episode of Accursed Philoctetes , an updated myth from the Trojan War cycle. In Act I, a famous Greek archer, Philoctetes, gets bitten by a snake - sent by Hera - on the island of Lemnos as the Greek army is heading to Troy to avenge the dishonor done to one of their own. The snakebit gets infected and fetid and completely incapitates him and unsettles his fellow sailors to the p...

This is the full podcast of Midas, A Folly in Two Acts & an Epilogue, which was previously dropped as discrete episodes but is available now in its shimmering entirety! Everyone thinks they know the story of Midas and the Golden Touch , some even know the concomitant story of Midas and the Donkey Ears , but there is even more to know about this foollish king of Phrygia than those two stories....

This is a brief, light-hearted presentation by two narrators and an ad hoc chorus on the Ides of March, explaining some of the background of this infamous date in history. Enjoy. A little foolishness is good for the soul.

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros , an absurdist play about the invasion by a crash of rhinos (read: fascism), my Skool Dayz is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case, an armed intruder (or two) in the school. Dayz opens with a faculty meeting wherein administrators head a...

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros , an absurdist play about the invasion of a population of rhinos (read: fascism), my Skool Daze is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case, an armed intruder (or two) in the school. Daze opens with a faculty meeting wherein administrators he...

This is the updated version of the excerpt, Liz Rant, from Skool Daze, a non-mythology play by MC. How new and improved? Well, we have two mystery cameos giving much improved voice to Liz and Kendra ( instead of yours truly laboring mightily) ! Perhaps you know them... The scene set up: during an important faculty workshop on school intruder preparedness, the very earnest Kendra and her rather edg...

Answers what is this podcast exactly and who is this MC?

Excerpt from a non-myth play, Skool Daze, what I call Liz Rant. During a faculty workshop on intruder preparedness, a goodie two shoes teacher, Kendra, and her edgier colleague, Liz, mix it up , but basically Liz just rashes on K. Enjoy. It's a teacher thing?

For those who need to binge and are not content to listen to The Song of Orpheus in installments, we’ve added a podcast of the full play, shortened by some aggressive editing, especially of Orpheus’s damned rhyming!  So, binge away if so moved! MC

In this episode, Act IV of The Song of Orpheus , we leave the kingdom of Hades for the upper airs, but there is much unfinished business still to sort out.  In answer to your questions - no, Orpheus does not try a third time to bring back his beloved Eurydice. That door has closed.  And yes, Virginia, it is true, Orpheus is a hot mess without the love of his life, and yet, despite his sad disarray...

Like the previous episode of Act II, this episode, Act III of The Song of Orpheus has entertainment aplenty, but of a different sort, as the scene shifts from mortal Thrace to immortal Hades. Here of course there are many of the characters you’ve come to know and love down below: the Dark Lord himself and his consort, Persephone, Cerberus the three-headed hound, Charon the boatman, the Three Judge...

In this episode, Act II of The Song of Orpheus , there is much ado - dancing and music, salty musicians, one with an unexpected Liverpudlian accent, a couple of dancers who seem to have left their virtue and veils at home, an impertinent attendant or two, not to mention, most importantly, the exceedingly stressed ( due to a premonition of disaster ) father of Orpheus and his invaluable aide overse...

In this first episode of the Song of Orpheus, two very, if not excessively, devoted fans, old Lucius and younger Melanippus, attend an outdoor concert where the legendary Orpheus musicus plays his magic and, more importantly, meets the Eurydice of his dreams.

In this episode, the short comedy, an Apocalyptic Apotheosis, better known as the Herc play, our beloved Olympians, upon the news of Hercules’s incineration, have a spirited conversation about the pluses and minuses of Zeus’s desire to grant his son, not by Hera,  immortality. This could include a throne on Olympus and that unnerves many, as it would upset the divine status quo. But as always, thi...

Three revealing bloopers from Herc Play, with short set-ups to scenes.