MINOTAUR

FMM Longlist Prize for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works, 2023-2024.
https://www.synecdocheworks.org

The last recording of the ghost story of empire. A fever dream. An encounter with a beast in exile, fallen and re-fallen from 'grace.' Or simply, a day in politics.

MINOTAUR stages the final interview of a former revolutionary turned relic - part political icon, part beast - sustained by the...

FMM Longlist Prize for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works, 2023-2024.
https://www.synecdocheworks.org

The last recording of the ghost story of empire. A fever dream. An encounter with a beast in exile, fallen and re-fallen from 'grace.' Or simply, a day in politics.

MINOTAUR stages the final interview of a former revolutionary turned relic - part political icon, part beast - sustained by the wreckage of their own mythmaking. What does it mean to kill a legend? Who gets to tell the story of empire's end? How do bodies persist when history forgets them - and how does power survive inside the machines we leave running? Blending myth and political critique, MINOTAUR asks what remains after the spectacle dies.

This play is amplified. This is event theatre.

To read about MINOTAUR: https://culturehub.org/read/final-labyrinths

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  • Charles Scott Jones: MINOTAUR

    Think Aeschylus, Blake, Eliot, Lorca, Shakespeare - MINOTAUR is an epic spectacle, the ghost story of humankind, echoes of civilization only a blip in earth’s history. Big picture drawn from the mouth of Minotaur ("the lone beast upon the shadow throne") who expounds with Ari (Ariadne?), and Pen in their wasteland triangle of loss. Caridad Svich pushes stage limits for our vanquished horror show. Crazy-good insights, astonishing poetry ancient and modern. I love Pen's parade-of-animals toast!

    Think Aeschylus, Blake, Eliot, Lorca, Shakespeare - MINOTAUR is an epic spectacle, the ghost story of humankind, echoes of civilization only a blip in earth’s history. Big picture drawn from the mouth of Minotaur ("the lone beast upon the shadow throne") who expounds with Ari (Ariadne?), and Pen in their wasteland triangle of loss. Caridad Svich pushes stage limits for our vanquished horror show. Crazy-good insights, astonishing poetry ancient and modern. I love Pen's parade-of-animals toast!

  • Shaun Leisher: MINOTAUR

    This play is a feast for actors, directors and designers. Caridad Svich is the closest thing our generation has to Shakespear. I loved how poetic the dialogue that fills this play is. I loved the lack of stage directions and how it gives permission for endless ways to interpret the script. The Minotaur was an enigma that I thoroughly enjoyed trying to solve. This piece also has some pretty insightful things to say about capitalism and empire that I will keep thinking about. Someone produce this play.

    This play is a feast for actors, directors and designers. Caridad Svich is the closest thing our generation has to Shakespear. I loved how poetic the dialogue that fills this play is. I loved the lack of stage directions and how it gives permission for endless ways to interpret the script. The Minotaur was an enigma that I thoroughly enjoyed trying to solve. This piece also has some pretty insightful things to say about capitalism and empire that I will keep thinking about. Someone produce this play.

  • Samuel Langellier: MINOTAUR

    Axe to grind and strings to play, MINOTAUR is an epic staging of the Late Stage we find ourselves in with Capital and all it's isms in full effect.
    Caridad Svich and her magnetic language illuminate how even outside the labyrinth the Minotaur remains the center. Those that are subject of song and sacrifice are due for cannibalism and rebirth in each new refrain.
    The celerity of celebrity on full display, when the last star burns out the universe is just beginning again.

    Axe to grind and strings to play, MINOTAUR is an epic staging of the Late Stage we find ourselves in with Capital and all it's isms in full effect.
    Caridad Svich and her magnetic language illuminate how even outside the labyrinth the Minotaur remains the center. Those that are subject of song and sacrifice are due for cannibalism and rebirth in each new refrain.
    The celerity of celebrity on full display, when the last star burns out the universe is just beginning again.

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Character Information

  • Minotaur
    captivating, bewitching, bad glamour political epic beast. dexterous with language. a spinner of tales. a spinner of selves.
    Character Age
    30s-up
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Any
  • Ari
    Minotaur's former lover, wily figure, patient, seeking a new order.
    Character Age
    30s-up
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Any
  • Pen
    warrior type, has some tricks up their sleeve, has some stories to tell, seeking a new world order but beholden to the past
    Character Age
    30s-up
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Any

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Theater in Quarantine, LaMaMa ETC and CultureHub, Year 2025

Awards

  • FMM: Longlist Prize for Works in Heightened Language
    Synecdoche Works
    Finalist
    2024