Augustus: public fortune, private pain

16, 17, 18 and 19 July 2014

Roman theater of Italica

22:30 h.

Ticket Price: 15€. Discounts: 12€

The significance was to the ancient Greeks and Romans one of the essential principles of immortality.

Transcending the mere mortal life was gray and ideal for those who want to achieve fame (true form of immortality for classical culture), even if it was necessary to skirt the limits of impiety and pride representing unforgivable sins for men, and carrying with it the punishment from the gods.

Speaking of Rome is talking about our past, of our present, of how we were and why we are as we are ..., with our lights and our shadows.

And if we were to find one name after this story, would be to Augusto, the classic tragic hero impregnated whose political life was full of nuances, even contradictions, but was topped by an unqualified success, in his private life while the pain would have a leading role, accentuated over the years.

Emperator, Court of Session, PopeEmperor ... in our vocabulary and our collective imagination, primer emperor of Rome (with permission of the divine Julius Caesar). Augustus, Father of the Nation, creator of the Roman Empire as administrative machinery, political and military.

Augusto gets its significance, immortality, no thanks to a brilliant or heroic death, but his work as a statesman, his work as creator of a "new state", his performance as "peacemaker" of Rome whipped and exhausted by centuries of external and internal struggles ... the statesman, Emperor, winner in the public sphere, but his privacy attends the succession of misfortunes that befell his family and he would plunge in the solitude of power, single mantle in which her clothing private solitude.

The scenario allows us to recreate a posthumous reunion with his former comrades, stems and enemies, realities and chimeras, landscapes of his meteoric rise; wandering shadows of his past to be accountable before the boatman guide you in your ultimate voyage ...

Gaius Octavius, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian, Octavio Augusto, Augustus.

In 2014 marks two thousand years of death, its apotheosis, his promotion to the ranks of Olympic. And that tragedy should be sung.

PERFORMERS:

Pedro Almagro, Pablo Gasán, Oscar Lara, Juanjo Macias, Ana Malaver, Miguel A. Martínez, Miguel Molina, David Pavón, J. Ignacio Pérez, Maria Varod, Celia Vioque

TEXT: Ramon Bocanegra / Manuel J. Parodi

MUSIC and SOUND SPACE: Emilio Villalba / AlterEgo

COSTUME DESIGN: Andrés González / PCM atelier

SCENIC DESIGN: César Pablo G. MEASURES THE PERIMETER / alterego

LIGHTING TECHNICIAN: Pablo Radio

SOUND TECHNICIAN: Fernando Reyes

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Claudia García

HELPER ADDRESS: Cristina Almazan

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Carmen Montes

ADDRESS AND STAGING: Ramon Bocanegra

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