Achilles, son of the goddess Thetis and the mortal Peleus, was one of the great heroes of Greek mythology. Of all those who fought in the Trojan War, he was the most recognized. His role in the war was decisive for the victory of the Greeks, but that did not mean that he could attend the fall of Troy. Despite his superhuman qualities, Achilles was mortal. His death was anticipated and, unlike other figures such as Heracles, he did not expect edification, but instead, a life of despair in the world of shadows. The extreme strength, cruelty, arrogance and beauty of Achilles became the prototype of all those who wanted to pay to live an illustrious, dangerous and accelerated life. After its success in the 67th edition of the Mérida Festival, La Fam Teatre returns, this time, in a new venue that joins the Festival’s programming: Plasencia.

In a mental health center, a group of patients is rehearsing a play about Aristophanes that will be shown in different centers around the country. Directed by a former professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, the leaders of the center observe the result of the show in astonishment. The professor/director believes he is embodying Aristophanes himself, and considers himself the creator of the satire and comedy genre. If that were not enough, the scenes that the patients enact in the show are not politically correct, the morality that prevails at the moment.

A debate begins here that will make us reflect on the limits of morality and freedom of expression. Who decides what is politically correct and what is not? We are exposed to an overprotective society capable of vetoing content due to the opinion of some. They are the new critics of society, who point to others, the “culprits” demonizing them through platforms that offer total anonymity like social networks, the bonfires of the present.

Duration: 80 minutes.

Age: Over 15 years.

Miles Gloriosus, a boastful, self-important, sex-obsessed and narcissistic soldier, has kidnapped a beautiful young woman and has her in his house in Ephesus. Geta also lives there, a slave who already knew the young woman from before, as well as the man she’s truly in love with, and who of course isn’t Miles.

Geta, eager to give a lesson to his master, is helped by a neighbor who also wants to teach Miles a lesson. In Ephesus, almost everyone wants to teach Miles Gloriosus a lesson! They make a hole in the wall that connects the neighbor’s house with that of the military, so that the lovers can see each other in secret.

Everything gets complicated when the lovers are discovered by another of Miles’s slaves, who is about to go and tell their master. This forces Geta to convince the other slave that he has not seen what he has seen, resorting to a hilarious trick where Geta dazzles us with his impudence and ingenuity.

The cunning Geta is not satisfied and taking advantage of Miles’s obsession with sex, hatches a brilliant plan…

Duration: 95 minutes.

Recommended age: > 7 years.

“Antigone, in truth, did not commit suicide at her grave, according to Sophocles, making an inevitable mistake, he tells us.” With these words, María Zambrano begins her work La tumba de Antígona (1967), a theatrical piece that combines philosophy and literature. In those initial words Zambranian feeling unfolds in all its splendor: hope, time, delirium, love.

Hope as the last sustenance of life that allows to germinate in knowledge; time for consciousness to awaken; delirium to find links with reality when reality prevents existence from being rooted in it; love as dream and sacrifice and promise.

These ingredients radically question the canon, since Antigone not only does not take her own life, but finds spaces of time in his delirium with which to be reborn. Are we not eager to be born at all? To find reasons from the heart for the unreason of tyrants? Have we not each of us buried alive an Antigone?

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Recommended age: over 18 years old.

Special Notices: Partial Nudity.

Cayo is a dancer who offends Nero in one of his famous bacchanalia, for which the emperor sentences him to death. Luckily he manages to escape and plans to hide in a dance school while pursuing his dream of being a great saltator. But he knocks at the wrong door and ends up at the gladiator school of Senator Piso.

Because of this, Cayo unintentionally and unknowingly becomes part of a conspiracy against Nero which causes the decline of gladiator games, and revolutionizes theatre, music and dance. It is extremely funny!

Duration: 150 minutes with break.

Recommended age: For all audiences.

“Antigone, in truth, did not commit suicide at her grave, according to Sophocles, making an inevitable mistake, he tells us.” With these words, María Zambrano begins her work La tumba de Antígona (1967), a theatrical piece that combines philosophy and literature. In those initial words Zambranian feeling unfolds in all its splendor: hope, time, delirium, love.

Hope as the last sustenance of life that allows to germinate in knowledge; time for consciousness to awaken; delirium to find links with reality when reality prevents existence from being rooted in it; love as dream and sacrifice and promise.

These ingredients radically question the canon, since Antigone not only does not take her own life, but finds spaces of time in his delirium with which to be reborn. Are we not eager to be born at all? To find reasons from the heart for the unreason of tyrants? Have we not each of us buried alive an Antigone?

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Recommended age: over 18 years old.

Special Notices: Partial Nudity.

Miles Gloriosus, a boastful, self-important, sex-obsessed and narcissistic soldier, has kidnapped a beautiful young woman and has her in his house in Ephesus. Geta also lives there, a slave who already knew the young woman from before, as well as the man she’s truly in love with, and who of course isn’t Miles.

Geta, eager to give a lesson to his master, is helped by a neighbor who also wants to teach Miles a lesson. In Ephesus, almost everyone wants to teach Miles Gloriosus a lesson! They make a hole in the wall that connects the neighbor’s house with that of the military, so that the lovers can see each other in secret.

Everything gets complicated when the lovers are discovered by another of Miles’s slaves, who is about to go and tell their master. This forces Geta to convince the other slave that he has not seen what he has seen, resorting to a hilarious trick where Geta dazzles us with his impudence and ingenuity.

The cunning Geta is not satisfied and taking advantage of Miles’s obsession with sex, hatches a brilliant plan…

Duration: 95 minutes.

Recommended age: > 7 years.

Important note: For adult public (explicit sexual theme).

Samaruc theatre is an amateur group with more than 25 years of existence, made up mostly of actors with visual disabilities. It is part of the Teatronce Cultural Association. The project was born with the objective of working for the visibility and integration of people with disabilities through theatre, offering the public quality plays. This means that since its inception there has always been a professional director. At the moment he directs the Begoña Sánchez project. Throughout its history it has participated in numerous editions of the SARC (Servei d’assistència i recursos culturals), as well as collaborated in different projects and cultural associations.

SYNOPSIS

The women are alone in their homes. This is how the months and years pass while men spend public money and their energies in sterile wars.

Fed up with living this way, the women decide to use very harsh pressure tactics to put an end to this situation.

Duration: 1h 25min.

Age: Adult public. Over 18 years.

Warnings: Explicit sexual theme.

The marine kingdom, since time immemorial, lives under the tranquility and calm of the government of the old god Nereo. However, Poseidon’s ambition and pride after the war which dethrones Cronos, grants him the privilege of governing the kingdom. Nereus offers Poseidon one of her daughters as a bride, but he rejects her because of an old prophecy and marries her sister, the beautiful Nereid Amphitrite. Poseidon, a greedy god, yearns for conquests and Nereus, offended by his arrogance, wants to punish the new god of the seas, leading to confrontations with large marine monsters such as The Kraken and The Hydra. The daughters of Nereo will be essential in this adventure. Amphitrite becomes queen of the seas, Yanira and her harmonious voice, is the narrator, and Galatea fulfills her role as caretaker of the marine kingdom.

Friday, July 21, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.

Cayo is a dancer who offends Nero in one of his famous bacchanalia, for which the emperor sentences him to death. Luckily he manages to escape and plans to hide in a dance school while pursuing his dream of being a great saltator. But he knocks at the wrong door and ends up at the gladiator school of Senator Piso.

Because of this, Cayo unintentionally and unknowingly becomes part of a conspiracy against Nero which causes the decline of gladiator games, and revolutionizes theatre, music and dance. It is extremely funny!

Duration: 150 minutes with break.

Recommended age: For all audiences.