October 11, 2024
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[in-person]
Theatre group:
Aula de teatro Universidade de Alicante
Production: Francesc Sanguino
LISÍSTRATA - OCCUPY ACRÓPOLIS
October 11, 2024
4:30pm
CITAC's space (building of AAC)
Audio: Spanish
Duration: 70min.
Synopsis:
In Lisistrata. Occupy Acropolis, we have asked ourselves if it is possible to put a comedy inside a tragedy. The truth is that, to do so, we have not tried to resort to magic because, after all, magic is the name that the gullible give to deception. Nor have we resorted to the fantastic or the fabulous. Let's say that we have said to ourselves “okay, we don't know when, or how, but we know that this is going to end very badly for all of us, so let's start by removing ballast and importance as the little living beings that we are”. But when this happens in the middle of a war, can we do the same? Our Lysistrata is a young college student who is at a party and suddenly all the lights go out, bombs go off, her cell phone loses connection and she loses contact with her family and the rest of the world. It's any college student who goes from worrying about the next practice to trying to get water out of the heating ducts in the classrooms so she doesn't die of thirst. It's any young woman who goes from getting angry at her brother for the mess he leaves everywhere to accepting that he's been reported missing, any young woman who goes from watching the last episode of a season to watching the kitchen wall come crashing down on her. Our Lysistrata goes from Athens in 420 BC in the Peloponnesian War to Mariupol, in the Ukraine invaded by Russia in 2022 disheveled, wounded, but not alone.
ABOUT THE GROUP:
The Classical Theatre Group at the University of Alicante presents “Lisístrata. Occupy Acrópolis”, based on Aristophanes’s play in its free version by Francesc Sanguino who directs the staging. Lisístrata was staged for the first time in the year 411 b.C., and it turned into a symbol of organised and peaceful endeavours to get peace worldwide. In this version, facts occur during the rehearsals of a group of students who had taken refuge in the Mariupol Theatre (Ukraine). This version delves into the general situation of women in Greece, beyond the sexual strike narrated by the original text. Without missing the sense of comedy, this production preserves Aristophanes’s premise, namely to offer peaceful solutions against wars that inevitably cause innocent victims.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
LISÍSTRATA: Blanca Fernández-Campa
CALONICA: Rosa Conesa
MÍRRINA: Fiorella Perrone
LAMPITO: Paula Ferre
TELESIA: Gema Santamaría
CARMIÓN: Ariadna Sala
IFIGENIA: Laura Martínez
HERMÍONE: Alejandra Noguera
ERINIA: Claudia da Silva
FEDRIAS: Luis Gimeno
ARGENIOS: Boris Marchiani
ANAXÍMENES: Liam Clark
AGAPIOS: Pedro García
ARCONTES: Luis Gimeno, Pedro García y Rosa Conesa
PRÍTANO: Luis Gimeno
ÉFORO: Gema Santamaría
HIPPEIS: Paula Ferre y Boris Marchiani
Cartel: Cesc Guevara and Roman Novitskii
Cenografia e adereços: Funding and equipment of the Aula de Teatro
Vestuário: Collective creation and funds of the Aula de Teatro
Desenho de luz: Francesc Sanguino and Jordi Chicoy
Direção: Francesc Sanguino
