Ideas:

• Daedalus' point of view changes from experience (section) to plan

• labyrinth: one path or many paths?

• Daedalus is trapped by his greatest invention (labyrinth)

• knowledge has a price

• Alan Turing- questions of emergence- what makes a soul?

• Labyrinth inside the mind

• anachronism vs. rewriting the exact same story

• myth as a tool to illustrate concepts

• multiplicity of views/times as well as paths = labyrinth (maze?)

• changing view of labyrinth: as a really long trail or as endless possible paths – internal (life) vs. external

• audience expects theatrical experience

• identify characters

• do we need a story?

• Change scales (snail vs. labyrinth)

• Daedalus' first invention is a dancing-ground for Ariadne- he invented landscape?

• String has multiple connections to stories: Daedalus' wings, the snail and the golden string

Structures/ Organizations:

• Automata: possibly create music

• people as set? People as architecture?

• Trap the audience in a labyrinth

• set is automated = device

Stories:

• The golden thread

• Minotaur, bull, lover

• Perdix (nephew) murdered by Daedalus because Daedalus was jealous

• Daedalus as the grandson of Erechtheus, founder of Athens

• Banishment of Daedalus by Minos

• Daedalus captured because he could thread a snail

• Daedalus' connection with Ariadne, “the lady of the labyrinth”

Things to Do:

• fundraise

• establish business/sponsor contacts

• organize events early: pre-sale of tickets, bring ideas to class

• determine organization and interests of class and rough idea of roles

• production team