Outside Athens

Two immense forms appear from underneath the ice melt of a glacier in a remote corner of Greenland. Everyone agrees that they exist but individuals, and even media outlets, describe them in ways that defy a common perception. To Ethan, a professor of Shakespeare in a midlife and marital crisis, they are the mythical characters Titania and Oberon, gods or aliens who have come to correct our course. To his daughter, an archaeologist, they are fungi spreading hallucinogenic spores across the globe. To her mother, an actress, they are empty forms for all of us to fill with whatever our own needs may be. And to her old friend, a theatre director, they are tools to be moved and manipulated in the creation of some useful story.