"Kykeon"

A Meditation on Death, in Five Acts:

How to create meaningful work in spite of the common, modern-day playwrights’ failed demystification.

Thesis Advisor: Katherine McGerr

Thesis Reader: Celia Madeoy

Honors Director: Dr. Danielle Smith

Thesis Advisor(s): Alison Cridge and Robin Berkowitz-Smith

Dramaturg: Flynn Marcus

Actors: Sydney Carmona, Micaiah John, Flynn Marcus, Izzy Scampoli

Special thanks to Audrey Flynn, Emily Farrell, Jeremy Cazes, Emily Ritger, Kathleen Wrinn, Chris Albright-Tufts, Laurie McDermott, Nick Kowerko, Ralph Zito, SEVAN, Charlotte Santella, and those who attended and supported the invited staged reading.

Invited Staged Reading photos of Kykeon shot by Emily Farrell.

Kykeon (pronounced Key-key-on) is an original play I wrote, produced, and directed as a invited staged reading during my Syracuse University Honors Thesis.

What is a Honors Thesis?

"The Thesis Project allows students to pursue, in depth, an independent project of the student’s own choosing in the major under the close supervision of a faculty advisor" (Honors Thesis).

The Thesis Paper

The following document is a copy of the final thesis paper detailing the reason for, and construction of, Kykeon.

This was the culmination of many months of hard preparation and many prior projects' inspiration that prepared me in my exploration for a new way of creating meaningful art.

The thesis catalogues a guerilla-style approach to new-work creation and a method of reimagining old myths in an attempt to bring back new ideas forgotten to our modern-day culture to explore themes from a new perspective.

Kykeon - A Meditation on Death, in Five Acts_ How to create meaningful work in spite of the common, modern-day playwrights' failed demystification..docx.pdf

The Script

The following document is the full script of Kykeon as it stands in it's 5th draft.

Kykeon(Draft 5).pdf

Synopsis

The plot follows Plato on a journey from Athens to Eleusis to partake in the forbidden Mysteries while simultaneously traveling through flashbacks of the popularity and eventual death of his mentor Socrates. The play attempts to understand why death can be a wonderful thing and the joy in accepting the fate of the universe. Kykeon was J.B. Poulin's reimagination of The Hymn To Demeter and accompanying myths which strives to bring characters and events from these forgotten stories to light.

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