And so it is that the unplanned road turns out to be every bit as intriguing as its least-travelled companion. When in 2018 I had happened upon an idea of weaving threads of The Odyssey with the toing and froing of the regulars of a Glasgow pub, it never occurred to me, not even fleetingly, that I might’ve supped from the deep well of Greek mythos. Unwittingly, I’d return. I really ought to have seen that coming…and would’ve had I not been as blind as Polyphemus. In short, writing and producing Dance The Colour Blue (2023), reduced my odds of being amongst this particular audience.

Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown weaves the hitherto unwoven stories of Eurydice and Persephone, loosely anchoring it in Depression-era New Orleans. The result is an intriguing juxtaposition, a dialectic which yields rich dividends.

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