Synopsis: | SEDUCTIONS is a comedy based on the Demeter-Persephone myth. MORT THANATOS abducts PIA GODDARD from her Vermont estate, where she lives with her mother DOLORES. MORT takes PIA first to the subway station at 110th and Broadway in Manhattan, then to the Underworld, a vast junk shop. What MORT wants from his brother, the wealthy businessman ZEKE GODDARD, in exchange for PIA are: a section of sky where he can put celebrities who are unhappy in the Un-derworld and an admission by his brother that he, MORT, is the most powerful god.
PIA, however, turns out to be more than the adults can handle: at first ecstatic over sexual discoveries, then rebellious when she realizes—thanks to HERMES, now a woman and a feminist—that the adults are using her, PIA finally decides to make her father humble, her mother less controlling and MORT a New Age sensitive guy.
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