The Ancient Olympics inspiration for 'The Games'

During the making of 'The Games' I and the team researched an enormous amount of information. I discovered recently Storify a great online application which allows you to capture and share information in the form of a story. This is what I came up with, it is by no means definitive and really only skirts the surface of the research we undertook, but it gives you an insight into the amazing world of the ancient olympics, to date over a 100 people have looked at it. Have a read http://storify.com/spiketheatre/the-ancient-olympics

Written by Mark Smith - Artistic Director - Spike Theatre