by Dumitru Solomon<\/p>\n
Artistic direction: Alexandru Colpacci<\/strong> The play "Diogenes the Dog" together with "Plato" and "Socrates" make up a trilogy that is part of a series titled by the author "Contemporary Masks", through which he aimed to dramatically transpose symbols, signs and ideas of moral existence. A play like "Diogenes the Dog" moves away from the idea of "philosophical biography", "sentimental life" or "exemplary destiny" and becomes a metaphor for the universal and contemporary man, troubled by the perennial dilemmas of existence.<\/p>\n As Valeriu R\u00e2peanu notes in the program of the show, the play can be associated with the theater of ideas, in the lineage of Camil Petrescu. As in his theater, the intellectual is at the center in his relationship with the institutionalized forms of power; the confrontation in the moments of maximum tragedy takes place in the field of ideas. In Dumitru Solomon's play, the idea \u2013 in this case the idea of freedom \u2013 acquires a concrete existence and function.<\/p>\n Considered among the founders of the Cynic philosophical school, Diogenes lived in an Athens that only retained the memory of its famous democratic principles. Showing his unreserved hostility towards the rulers (he is the dog that bites the ostentatiously merciful hand that holds out to him the bone indispensable to life), Diogenes aims to free himself from all social and human servitude: he will live by begging, he will sleep under the open sky, he will not be tied to anyone, he will remain indifferent to everything. He cherishes the hope that he will be listened to, followed, that he will contribute to the purification of morals. When he falls in love, he is afraid that he will be chained, but by giving up love, he feels that he has lost his humanity. In his conflicted interiority, Diogenes loves his will to freedom and hates his inability to have it.<\/p>\n Finally, Diogenes, until then the embodiment of the absolute, unwavering in his aspiration for freedom, begins to doubt himself and enters into a dialogue with his own conscience. He wonders if such freedom, at the limit of elementary life, is possible or is it just a utopia. He understands that society \u201ecannot be changed by imprecations, nor by the most exemplary and stubborn singular protest, but, probably, by the consistent effort of its good side against its bad side\u2026\u201d (Valentin Silvestru in \u201eRomania Literara\u201d no. 48\/29, Nov. 1973).<\/p>\n Distribution:<\/p>\n Aristodemus:\u00a0 Liviu Rozorea<\/strong> Technical director: M\u0103rioara Goina \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" de Dumitru Solomon Regia artistic\u0103:\u00a0 Alexandru Colpacci Decor:\u00a0 I. G\u00e9za B\u00edr\u00f3 Costume:\u00a0 Tatiana Manolescu Uleu Data premierei:\u00a0 9 octombrie 1980 Piesa \u201eDiogene c\u00e2inele\u201d \u00eempreun\u0103 cu \u201ePlaton\u201d \u015fi \u201cSocrate\u201d, alc\u0103tuiesc o trilogie ce face parte dintr-o serie intitulat\u0103 de autor \u201eM\u0103\u015fti contemporane\u201d, prin care urm\u0103rea transpunerea dramatic\u0103 a unor simboluri, semne \u015fi idei ale existen\u0163ei morale. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie-arhiva":[494],"class_list":["post-10148","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
\nDecor: I. G\u00e9za<\/strong> B\u00edr\u00f3<\/strong>
\nCostumes: Tatiana Manolescu Uleu<\/strong>
\nPremiere date: October 9, 1980<\/p>\n
\nXeniades:\u00a0 Jean Sandulescu<\/strong>
\nPasiphon:\u00a0 Nicolae Barosan, Dan Glasu<\/strong>
\nThe guitarist:\u00a0 Florian Chelu<\/em>
\nDiogenes:\u00a0 Eugen Harizomenov<\/strong>
\nAristippus:\u00a0 Eugen Tugulea<\/strong>
\nWoman:\u00a0 Mariana Neagu<\/strong>
\nThe old man:\u00a0 Nicholas Thomas<\/strong>
\nThe Guard and the Servant:\u00a0 John Martin<\/strong>
\nHipparchia:\u00a0 Ileana Iurciuc<\/strong>
\nPlato:\u00a0 Ion Abrudan<\/strong>
\nMetrocles:\u00a0 Laurian Jivan<\/strong>
\nFather:\u00a0 Marcel Seg\u0103rceanu<\/strong>
\nThe slave:\u00a0 Grig Schi\u0163cu<\/strong>
\nAlexander the Great:\u00a0 Marcel Popa<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPrompter: Dimitrios Stefanidis
\nLighting: Vasile Blejan
\nSound: Dorel Olea<\/p>\n