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Miles Gloriosus

Posted on: June 1st, 2023

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.

Clitemnestra

Posted on: June 1st, 2023

Clytemnestra is a redo of the classic myth deviating from historically macho tradition. We rescue a woman who is the victim of a society established by and for men, a woman who rebels against the system, is ahead of her time and therefore branded as cruel and perverse by men.

The play gives voice to this woman who will tell us in first person about her world, her passions, her failures and her triumphs. The journey through the life of Clytemnestra takes us through the most relevant moments of her history. It discusses her marriage to Agamemnon, the sacrifice of her daughter Iphigenia, the romance with Aegisthus, the Trojan War and the relationship with her daughter Electra.

Through dance and music, and special importance given to flamenco, the interpretation will give life to this fascinating woman. The play is backed by a modified classical choir structure and multidisciplinary staging to help reach modern audiences. The figure of women in history… how much has it changed and where does her way of life leave us?

Duration: 1h 25min.

Age: Over 12 years old.

La tumba de Antigona

Posted on: June 1st, 2023

“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.

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