Ideas of things to maybe try

1. More "interrogations" of characters
2. Image collages of characters
3. Having everyone answer the questions:
a) Tell us when you've been Psyche
b) Tell us when you've been Eros
c) Tell us when you've been Aphrodite
d) Has there ever been a time when you felt like you invented love?
e) has there ever been a time when you felt like you invented sex?
f) tell us about your worst heartbreak
g) tell us about a time when you broke someone's heart
h) what have you done to win someone back?
i) when have you felt like the gods are against you/
j) what makes you feel beautiful?
k) what is your underworld?
4. Have people bring in objects that might be or represent the following:
a) Eros's arrows
b) Beauty
c) The Box Psyche brings from the underworld
d) the grains she sorts
e) Psyche's lamp
f) Psyche's knife
Then do some exercises where we play with transforming them from one scene to the next
5. Break out the scenes in the story we think are most important, and try telling them different ways, and or in different styles, ie the "there were once three daughters" as noir, a beauty pageant, a rock video, a mary zimmerman play, etc.
6. Have everyone toss certain images into the pot that keep coming up (a la Marie's dream, my image of projections on silk, etc) and see how we can build scenes around them that we may or may not put in the final production
7. Have some "arts and crafts" days, where we let our more visual art inclined folks lead us through making set pieces, masks, possible costume pieces, possible puppets, etc...
8. Try telling the entire story as a non-traditional puppet show.
9. Try telling the entire story in silent movement.
10. Try telling the entire story as a series of still tableaus.

Just a few ideas for tonight...