Comedy by Radu Stanca
\nAbsolute premiere<\/p>\n
Artistic director: Miron Niculescu<\/strong> (National Theatre "ILCaragiale" Bucharest) Part of a long line of writings inspired by ancient culture, the play "Critis" or "The Quarrel of the Gods" has been considered by critics as an exercise in irony on mythological themes. Phoebus, Hera, Zeus, Athena are satirically characterized in scenes of slapstick comedy, but which retain an undoubted freshness and common sense. The pretext for the quarrel of the gods is a young and beautiful mortal - the Athenian Critis, who wins a beauty contest held in Thessaly, while Aphrodite, participating incognito in the contest, comes in second place. The insult to beauty cannot go unpunished, so Aphrodite and her husband, Hephaistos, ask Zeus for permission to "scold" Critis. Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, who has maintained a manifest antipathy towards Aphrodite ever since the incident with Paris' apple, takes Critis under her double protection \u2013 as an inhabitant of Athens and as a virgin. From this moment on, the entanglements and quarrels on Olympus are continuous, involving more and more gods, all subject to the same passions, envy, jealousy, resentment as humans, biased and arbitrary in judgments and actions. Only Phoebus enjoys the scandal, as a diversion that will further dissipate the languor that reigns on Olympus. He too, inspired by Platonic philosophical theories, finds the explanation for the phenomenon by which Aphrodite could be defeated precisely in a beauty contest: "Aphrodite is beauty itself. Critis is just a beautiful girl. It is natural that people only recognize imitations, not the supreme model."\u201e<\/p>\n Started on Olympus, the quarrel descends to earth, where the gods try to organize a second edition of the beauty contest, in which Zeus, disguised as the king of the city, will choose Aphrodite as the winner, restoring her to her natural rights and erasing the initial insult. However, struck by Eros' arrow, Zeus also falls in love with Critis, while Hera makes bold plans to cheat on him with Phoebus. In the end, everything returns to its original state, although the old antipathies and wars do not die out, and Critis, the mortal gifted with an incredible chance, will marry the true king of the city, young, handsome, to her measure, thus ending with a happy ending this farce with meaning, this contemporary joke on a classic canvas that reveals the patterns of truth and human beauty.<\/p>\n Distribution:<\/p>\n Zeus:\u00a0 Nicholas Thomas<\/strong> Technical director: Elena Varlam ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comedie de Radu Stanca Premier\u0103 absolut\u0103 Regia artistic\u0103:\u00a0 Miron Niculescu (Teatrul Na\u0163ional \u201eI.L.Caragiale\u201d Bucure\u015fti) Asistent regie:\u00a0 Nicolae Toma Scenografia:\u00a0 Elena Ionescu Muzica:\u00a0 Zolt\u00e1n Boros Coregrafia:\u00a0 Eva Omb\u00f3di Data premierei:\u00a0 16 februarie\u00a0 1969 \u00cencadr\u00e2ndu-se \u00een lungul \u015fir al scrierilor inspirate din cultura antic\u0103, piesa \u201eCritis\u201d sau \u201eG\u00e2lceava zeilor\u201d a fost considerat\u0103 de critici drept un exerci\u0163iu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie-arhiva":[494],"class_list":["post-10050","arhiva","type-arhiva","status-publish","hentry","categorie-arhiva-unsorted"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nAssistant director: Nicolae Toma<\/strong>
\nScenography: Elena Ionescu<\/strong>
\nMusic: Zolt\u00e1n Boros <\/strong>
\nChoreography: Eva Omb\u00f3di<\/strong>
\nPremiere date: February 16, 1969<\/p>\n
\nThe King:\u00a0 Ben Dumitrescu<\/strong>
\nHera:\u00a0 Doina Ioja<\/strong>
\nPallas Athena:\u00a0 Alla Tautu<\/strong>
\nAphrodite:\u00a0 Simona Constantinescu<\/strong>
\nPhoebus:\u00a0 Nicolae Barosan<\/strong>
\nHermes:\u00a0 Jean Sandulescu<\/strong>
\nHephaestus:\u00a0 Ion Tomorrow<\/strong>
\nEros:\u00a0 Ana Popa<\/strong>
\nCriticism:\u00a0 Gina Nicolae<\/strong>
\nCoryphaeus I:\u00a0 Octavian Uleu<\/strong>
\nCoryphaeus II:\u00a0 John the Baptist<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPrompter: Sofica Spoiala<\/p>\n