PYTHIA STORYBOARD – A video and soundtrack by Lisa Karrer, based on Par Lagerkvist’s Novel The SybilFeaturing Dina Paisner, David Simons and Lisa Karrer; with “Witless Son” images by visual artist Robert Egert

1) Introduce the Pythia 2) Show her hovel on the mountain 3) TBA – introduce her “witless son”

4) Introduce the goats 5) Introduce the Man 6) The Man tells the story of his curse

7) Pythia tells of her childhood 8) Pythia describes her relationship with god 9) Pythia remembers her youth as Oracle

as the celebrated Oracle of Delphi

10) Pythia gives birth in a cave 11) Pythia is exiled 12) Time Passes – the Pythia grows older with the goats

13) The Man asks the Pythia for an answer to his 14) He tells her what he has learned in his fate, and why his god is so hateful and evil wanderings on the earth

15) Pythia speaks bitterly of her own 16) She speaks of his cruelty, in giving 17) While she is speaking her son merciless god her a witless idiot for a son disappears; Pythia and the Man

search for him on the mountain

**Still to develop: the scene of her son’s disappearance, and the realization that he was cruelly, savagely divine, an inscrutable god; her realization about the mystery of her life and god’s place in it. She tells the Man what she sees in him, and he leaves her to continue his endless journey. The Pythia left alone, looking down on the temple from her mountaintop, watching a young Oracle on her way to the Temple.