Showing posts with label the storyteller. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Jim Henson's Storyteller

I have been thinking a lot about the myth of Orpheus since I discovered Hadestown just a few days ago.  One of my favorite versions of the tale comes from Jim Henson.  In the 80's he produced a series called The Storyteller featuring fairy tales from all over Europe.  Most of them were not the most familiar tales from our childhood.  The first series was supurbly done.  Later I discovered that there had been a second series, just 4 episodes, created for Greek Myths.  And one of them was the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. 

You can watch the entire episode here.