ABSTRACT
As theatre is a means of telling stories, perhaps a more effi cient use of theatrical training is to reconnect to the larger-than-life original accounts of heroes, shamanistic performances, and archetypes that are the basis of virtually every story being told. Stories in all likelihood predate complex verbal language. Large vocabularies and written language came later as well as codifi ed and elaborated meaning. Writing clarifi ed and validated meaning while at the same time creating the belief in an actual and literal “know-ability” not present in the original and changeable oral presentations of these powerful tales and myths. Writing had the effect of eroding the mystery and magic that the myths formerly held.
