Word: erysichthon
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Nelson T. Greaves ’10, in particular, is hysterical as Erysichthon, a king who is punished by the god Demeter for cutting down a sacred tree. Demeter sics an excitingly creepy Hunger (Sara L. Wright ’09) on the king. As Wright quite literally clings to Greaves, his character descends into a starvation-induced madness, eating everything in sight and selling his mother into slavery when the money runs out. Erysichthon doesn’t think it’s so funny, of course, especially not the part where he eats his own foot...
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