The Cycle

A fierce encounter, at a single point in time, between Orestes, who is returning, and Thaleia, who is departing. The unavoidable and traumatic separation of two mythically strong human beings—whom life, and perhaps the gods themselves, seem to drive in opposite directions.

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Between them stands their common friend: the uncertain yet wise and compassionate Harry—the chorus. He finds himself in the vortex between the great return of the latter-day Ulysses (Orestes) and the eternal pilgrimage of Alexander (Thaleia). Harry attempts to mediate, to temper, and to reconcile the cosmic vehemence of their orbits. And he alone succeeds in solving the riddle of the rain.

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We come and we go.
We depart and we return.
Like the gods—
within the cycle of life,
in the shadow of the sun.