A Taste of Theatre: Developmental Storytelling Developmental Theatre, or “taster Theatre” as I have come to call it, was an entirely new concept for me. With no script, a tight time schedule and only a Wikipedia account of the Greek Myth Eros and Psyche, I agreed to direct the play before my eyes had cast over a single line. Eros and Psyche recites the meeting of heart and soul. Psyche, bound by a curse from Aphrodite, can never be loved by a mortal man, she is destined for another whom even the Gods’ fear. Hardly the monster that the Oracle has described, at least in appearance, Eros – son of Aphrodite – fills Psyche’s world with every luxury she could ever want, with one condition, she may never know his true identity. Psyche, too curious to know the face of the man she has fallen in love with accidently burns him with an oil lamp, scarring the skin across his heart. She has betrayed his trust and lost him forever. Mild Psyche must muster the courage to face Aphrodite head on and accept the trials and tribulations she throws at her if she has any hope of ever being reunited with Eros. [...]
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