Go!
Gilgamesh! Go!
"It is an old story but one
that can still be told.
About a man who loved and lost a friend to death,
and learned he lacked the power to bring him back to life." –
Herbert Mason
In the mid 19th century, two Englishmen from the British Museum and a Turkish archaelogist discovered a number of clay tablets during the excavation of Ninevah, once the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire. Written on these tablets, in cuneiform text, was the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest and most enduring stories known to man. The Epic contained an account of the Great Flood which predated by at least a millennium the story of Noah and the Ark found in the Bible. The discovery of a fragment of the epic in Palestine suggests that Biblical authors were familiar with the story. Since it's first modern translation in 1872, the story of the tyrant king Gilgamesh and his beloved friend Enkidu has spread to every corner of the earth, with it's themes of love and death and man's attempt to reconcile himself to tragedy. We present this timeless story as a modern operetta with text inspired by Herbert Mason1s brilliant verse narrative published in 1970.
Cast
Jacqui Harris & Billy Romery - Narrators
Terrence
Forsythe - Gilgamesh
Robert Henley - Enkidu
Ivy Ney - Ninsun, mother of Gilgamesh
Carlos Arias - Hunter's Son
Jimmy Hunter - Hunter/Ferryman
Amy Lynn Franklin - Temple Prostitute
Elizabeth Heflin - Lady by the Sea
Barry Gremillion - Scorpion Man
Lazero Wisnia - Utnapishtim
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