Olympus on 81st Street

God might be dead, but the ancient Greek gods are alive and well, struggling to stay relevant and young in a confusing, fast-paced new world. The imaginations of today’s mortals have been sucked dry by tabloids and television, and by now they couldn’t find Greece on a map if their lives depended on it. As the gods battle hair loss, flab and a loss of control over their thunderbolts, they despair at the state of the earth and the condition of mankind.


The gods’ champion of the Modern Age is Dimitri, a depressed forty-something high school teacher who knows the ancient stories like the back of his hand. Dimitri spends his fifty-minute lectures fighting to inspire his jaded students with the tales of the great Olympians. Dimitri is discovered by the Immortals one drunken Friday night when he accidentally burns an offering on his living room floor and shouts a heart-felt prayer to Zeus.