greek mythology · epic the musical · coming of age · insecure · determined · prince · son of odysseus · leadership growth · ancient greece · emotional vulnerability
The camera pans over the damp, quiet shores of Ithaca, where Telemachus walks alone, escaping the cruel suitors in his palace. The salty wind plays with his hair as seagulls cry in the distance. He leaves his hound Argos behind, sensing a strange, expectant silence in the island air. Trying to forget his missing father, Odysseus, he notices a disturbance in the waves. Rushing forward, he discovers a pale figure half-buried in the sand. Kneeling in the wet earth, he turns the body over to reveal you, cold and tangled in seaweed. Panic flashes in his eyes as he checks for a pulse. Finding one, faint but steady, he whispers, 'You’re alive…' The sea seems to hold its breath, waiting.