NIKOS KOLESIS
SYNOPSIS
TRILOGY OEDIPUS
Theban Cycle
ANTIGONE-ELECTRA
Oedipus Cycles
THEATER
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Antigone
and Electra, the heroines of mourning
forced
by facts to live family disputes,
rivalries
and violent murders with wild conclusion.
Antigone
buries her brother Polynices
contrary
to Creon, the city, and citizens,
while
Electra gives the battle for her dead father Agamemnon.
She
is against her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus who killed the
winner of Troy.
Both
Antigone and Electra resist
with
passion in the state violence and power,
resisting
at the Tyrants.
Parallel
and Same with the history
eternal
different
reveal
the opening.
ELECTRA
EDUCATOR
Lovely
Orestes the famous Argos
there
under are found Lykeios Agora, the temple of Hera,
and
just beyond the palaces of Pelopidas.
Your
sister Electra baby gave to escape
from
Aegisthus hands when the black net of death killed
your
father, fabulous Agamemnon
when
he returned victorious from Troy.
You
are the most faithful friend for this pay attention to the project, based on
that sued Phoebus when I went to the oracle to ask him.
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It's
the perfect crime, without an army and
chariots I will conquer Argos.
Foreigner
you will enter in the palace and say that
Orestes
is dead, tried to see what becames inside.
We
will say that in this pitcher is my burnt body.
ELECTRA
My
mother Clytemnestra did the crime together
with
her lover Aegisthus killed my father
divine
Agamemnon just returned from Troy.
Uselessly
I wait for appears Orestes and together
to
take revenge for the murder of our father,
only
Orestes can bring redemption.
OPENING
ANTIGONE
Life
is the One and the Many
the
Same and different, this and other.
time
wants art of life to blooms.
ELECTRA
Time
wants truth and freedom
to
complete, to uncover the opening.
ANTIGONE
My
two beloved brothers, Eteocles
and
Polynices killed outside the walls
Seven-gate
city of Thebes. One Polynices remained
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unburied
and unlamented outside the walls of Thebes,
while
the other Eteocles with orders of Creon
he
was buried with all prices as it suits in king.
It
is impossible Polynices to remain unburied,
they
will eat the vultures, jackals, worms.
My
beloved sister, lovely Antigone
these
are contrary to the orders of Creon,
the
laws of city and the wish of Thebans.
Ismene
think a little, even sisters we have completely
opposite
opinion, different characters.
Remember
what found our father mythical Oedipus
and
our mother divine Jocasta.
If
you are afraid alone me I will continue the work,
alone
I will bury the dead brother.
Eyewitnesses
and hearsay
parallel
and same with history
we
reveal the difference,
The
passage from one to another.
GUARDIAN
Creon
someone buried Polynices
and
made libations on the tomb,
despite
the order that you gave.
Ignore
the laws of city and the will of gods,
but
we found who is the guilty.
CREON
They
want to overthrow me
and
to take the power.
GUARDIAN
Brave
Creon
This
is the daughter who buried the dead.
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When
she saw the grave began to lament
without
delay we dashed above her
and
we caught.
CREON
So
it's like saying
speak
you have the possibility
to
defend yourself.
You
know that the order is death
for
anyone who disobeys and bury the dead.
ANTIGONE
From
when the Laws of Gods
they
are less than the laws of men.
You
cannot order as god
after
man you are a mortal.
CREON
Death
awaits you for what you say and do.
ANTIGONE
Only
Divine Justice defines life and death,
we
are beings with free will
to
do what we think proper, right.
CREON
Now
you will know the true face of power.
You
are a rebellious
put
little mind do not put with the power,
you
can not change the world.
ANTIGONE
Polynices
my brother
could
not to remain unburied and unlamented.
The
corpse was thrown to earth,
to
eat the birds and the beasts.
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CREON
The
order is an order
although
child of my sister
did
not obey the Law,
I
can not make any exception.
ANTIGONE
Laws
are to change
the
Citizens, societies form
their
content depending on the conditions.
CREON
Death
awaits for you that you say also
whatever
sophistry and you think.
ANTIGONE
I
have nothing to lose
beither
riches nor kingdom.
I am
free to say my opinion effortlessly
without
any interest.
CREON
Little
Antigone
but
you do not understand that you are lead to death.
ANTIGONE
There
is great glory
when
you die for ideas and your beliefs.
ELECTRA
DANCE
RESIST
IN THE POWER
RESIST
IN THE POWER
CHRYSOTHEMIS
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Our
mother divine Clytemnestra
she
saw a bad dream and frightened a lot.
Ordered
me to go to the tomb of our father
and
put libations.
ELECTRA
That
killed Agamemnon
how
can leave libations on his grave.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Unfairly
you turn and say in the all city
that
I am tyrannical, very hard and heartless.
You
forget that killed my child Iphigenia
for
the sake of Menelaus although he had two children
forget
that Agamemnon
sacrificed
my daughter to the gods.
ELECTRA
With
your lover Aegisthus
you
killed my father,
when
triumphantly returned from Troy.
Unwillingly
killed the deer of goddess Artemis,
and
this from anger kept the fleet
asking
from Agamemnon
to
sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia.
CLYTEMNESTRA
I
have great fear in the soul, I see bad dreams
for
this left to make sacrifices,
so
justly I govern Argos.
ELECTRA
Ah
!!! The unfortunate what I hear
I
live in the wild loneliness and she asks favors.
EDUCATOR
Mythical
Queen Clytemnestra in Argos
I
bring news for you and your husband Aegisthus.
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Stranger
you say who is the news
I am
full of suspense.
EDUCATOR
Died
your son Orestes
he
died on foreign, exiled, fugitive.
ELECTRA
Ah
!! Gods I lost my brother, my pride
I
lost all hope for revenge.
CLYTEMNESTRA
When
became this
I
want to know in every detail the facts.
EDUCATOR
All
blessed the son of Agamemnon, Orestes
In
Delphic Games just started chariot
the
charioteers after a few laps
they
began to fall over each other,
filling
the track with debris, cries, screams.
CLYTEMNESTRA
What
became Orestes, what happened to my son Orestes.
EDUCATOR
The
only ones left standing
was
brave Orestes and wonderful Athenian.
On
the climaxing of race confused
the
reins. The chariot overturned and Orestes
began
to crawl from the fire horse on the track,
tied
up deadly from them.
The
body became unrecognizable, took the dead
and
they took care of him burned the body.
Phokeans
carried the ashes to be buried in Argos.
CLYTEMNESTRA
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The
death of my son means
that
saved my life.
I do
not know whether to rejoice or regret.
ELECTRA
Orestes
-Orestes
my
beloved brother death was merciless.
Now
I need to bend the head
In
the killers of our father.
ANTIGONE
CREON
My
son Aimona
Antigone
chose the dead,
you
can not marry her.
Better
to find another woman
correspond
in your expectations.
AIMONAS
Venerable
father Creon
I
want to appear your worthy son
but
I love her.
CREON
Antigone
is a rebellious
choose
the death.
AIMONAS
Father
unfairly you decided
dying
the unfortunate girl.
she
buried his dead brother Polynices,
there
is something more correct and honest
grooming
the dead.
CREON
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Others were the orders
disobeyed
the laws of the city,
He
knew that the penalty was death
for
anyone who did the opposite.
The
decision was taken
this
you will not marry.
AIMONAS
This
time with your words
you
put me a thousand knives.
CREON
Antigone
the
critical moment arrived.
Are
you ready to die?
you
decided
how
to put an end to your life.
ANTIGONE
My
only I take the road of death,
my only
I will go down to Hades, a living dead.
ALL
TOGETHER
RESIST
IN THE POWER
RESIST
IN THE POWER
TIRESIAS
Proud
Thebans
and
you multimode Creon,
pay
attention to the prophecies
of a
blind old man.
CREON
Old
Tiresias
became
very strange lately,
let
puzzles and spoke very clearly.
TIRESIAS
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Prudent Creon left to bury Polynices
do
not play with the fire and death.
CREON
Polynices
will not be buried in Thebes
he
came with an army to conquer the city.
TIRESIAS
With
difficulty keep myself not to speak.
learn
how blood is paid with blood,
the
dead with dead when unjustly you act.
Rebellious
Antigone is in prison,
and
a king is dead unburied.
Furies
lurking in the corner
I
hear lamentations and dirges.
CREON
In
front of the town I could not accept anything.
I
leave fast I release Antigone
does
not happen no villain.
MESSENGER
Aimonas
the son of Creon
was
killed with his own hands,
he
ended his life.
Unfortunate
Antigone cried that she is innocent.
AIMONAS
Courage-courage
my
Favorite Antigone
I
will not leave you, we will die together.
ANTIGONE
The
time has arrived
I
will never be able to see again the sunlight.
OCHLOS
-MILITARYMEN
Disobey
the orders, you buried Polynices
death
-death in Antigone.
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ELECTRA
CHRYSOTHEMIS
Electra
our brother Orestes
he
returned to Argos.
I
saw funeral offerings in the tomb of his father,
Who
other apart from Orestes
he
did such something.
ELECTRA
Ah
!! Sister our beloved brother
died
on foreign, had ugly end.
Notify
together to kill Aegisthus,
Orestes
goes dead.
CHRYSOTHEMIS
Woman
you small and weak
It
is possible to put with the power.
ELECTRA
People-People
to
see how my eyes grew
and
became one from the crying.
ORESTES
Women
from Argos
who
is the Palace of King Aegisthus
that
remains the queen Clytemnestra.
DANCE
What
you see before you.
ELECTRA
Stranger
why you came
what
is your purpose.
ORESTES
I do
not understand what you are saying,
what
do you want to know.
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the container has inside the ash of Orestes.
ELECTRA
I
want to keep in my hands
this
holy shroud.
My
beloved brother Orestes is dead
boy
I left unlamented and untrimmed.
This
time I die with my father
and
my brother.
ORESTES
I
can not bear another to see her unhappy,
that
all, you are Electra,
my
poor your passions end do not have.
Do
not cry your dead brother
the
ashes are false, are not Orestes,
he
is alive.
ELECTRA
What
else I will listen, that is
why
you play with me.
ORESTES
He
is the one that you see
here
in front of you.
To
see our father's ring
this
should convince you.
ELECTRA- RECOGNITION
Ah
!! My soul
you
came when I did not wait for you,
finally
came
reached
the revenge of Atreides.
The
black bitch Clytemnestra
together
with her lover Aegisthus,
they
killed Agamemnon.
ORESTES
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watch
Electra
do
not hear us and overturned the plans.
ELECTRA
Orestes
I am with you
I
will make that you tell me
to
achieve our objective.
CLYTEMNESTRA
Aegisthus
my husband
they
slaughter my children.
My
son Orestes I am your mother
pity
you do not to have soul.
ELECTRA
When
with your lover
you
kill my father Agamemnon
you
did not saddened at all.
ORESTES
Oh
!!! gods
revenge
of Atreides remains unfulfilled,
my
Sister divine Electra
betrayed-betrayed.
The
black bitch Clytemnestra will stay alive
and
the unholy Tyrant Aegisthos
It
rejoices the kingdom
ALL
TOGETHER
THIS
IS THE DEMOCRACY THE GREAT TIME
THIS
IS THE STORY.
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NIKOS
KOLESIS
