NIKOS KOLESIS
SYNOPSIS
TRILOGY
ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
Prometheus
Savior
Oedipus Cycles
Antigone of Thebes
Bacchae Kitheronas
A
THEATER
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PROMETHEUS SAVIOR
Passions
of Prometheus are without end,
nailed
to the rock with steel shackles
endures
badly.
Hephaestus
the god of fire and the terrible State
they
took the job after the orders of Zeus.
It
caused the rage of gods because gave
in
the people the secrets of immortals.
Nailed
on this rock I say and foretell
the
future of the world, the future of gods and men.
Prometheus
Bound, Unbound, pyrophoric, savior
the
power of Necessity is mighty.
Prometheus
how you put with awesome Zeus
the
gods dominate the world, dominate in the lives
of
people, looking only they impose
the
right of the strongest.
Olympian
Zeus accused me because I dared
to
speak about the future of his own,
how
will lose the power and the throne
No
one can change my opinion.
Jupiter
when took the power and took the throne
from
his father Cronus, handed powers
in
the gods without figuring mortals.
I
asked they have the right in knowledge, learning,
I
gave the fire, the future appearred brilliant
for
mortals, for all mankind.
I am
a Bound, Unbound, pyrophoric, savior
torchbearer, a liberator of
unfortunate people
in
the opening of light.
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It
is time to learn the passions of human beings,
hear
to their history.
Learn
how I showed in mortal the movements
of
stars, the numbers greatest wisdom,
to
measure space and the time
I
found the composition of letters
to
Create an incredible language.
I
gave them the memory, the most important muse,
I
offered many wise arts to be better their life,
the
way you think.
But
look how I suffer, I can not be saved
From
my ills, sufferings which I suffer.
What
city, that they think.
Accept
Him who is Bound, Unbound, torchbearer.
who
city, who country
accept
Him the saviour, the liberator Prometheus
he
puts with the Olympian gods.
OEDIPUS
CYCLES
OEDIPUS
Favorite Antigone
In who country we reached now.
In who country will accept your blind father.
Ah! Daughter-my daughter
Child unholy father
Unfairly wander in Foreigner.
DANCE
Sang little Antigone
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Sang
Blind Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arrived in Athens where the
wretched king resorted suppliant in holy Kolonou, asking protection
from the goddess.
Theseus, the ruler of Athens protected the human.
Who killed his father?
He married his mother
And had children together.
Began the Theban Cycles
Began the Circles of Oedipus ,
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus,
Antigone, Jocasta .
Started cycles of Oedipus B and Antigone B
Completing the circles of posthumously,
Reveal the past - present and future
What we know and do not know.
PRIEST
Omniscient Oedipus we came to ask you
How to save the city.
Make your miracle as you did before
from bitch Sphinx .
OEDIPUS
Thebans rocked my soul
From the evil that found us.
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OEDIPUS -B
What I would not give to not hear
Those who I heard.
Do not happen these terrible facts.
Phoebus asked to leave the impurity that contaminated the city,
This who killed Laius when he went pilgrim
In oracle of Delphi.
Great Oedipus said front in all that discovers
The guilty.
Rumours said that a wayfarer killed Laius.
OEDIPUS
Cry the seer Tiresias
To uncover the culprit
To save the city.
TEIRESIAS
I know the truth
But I can not say
Living great drama.
OEDIPUS
Speak testy old man
someone you hide
Do not shout the guards.
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Big Oedipus
You're the guilty
You killed Laius .
OEDIPUS
Tiresia careful what you say
Will not regret that you are blind.
TEIRESIAS
Misfortune Oedipus
You are father and brother of your children
You are a man of your mother
Where did children with her.
You are the one who killed his father Laius
On the way to Delphi.
Then Oedipus accused Creon that he
Put Tiresia say these nonsenses.
JOCASTA
Well why you cry like little children
My husband and my brother fighting
As roosters .
DANCE
What said the wise seer
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It's awful and terrible .
JOCASTA
An oracle said that my husband
Will be killed by his son
That would make with me .
But Laios was killed by robbers
in the crossroads road for Phocis.
Once the child was born - we gave to a shepherd
To fly in Cithaeron,
After we tied up his legs from ankles .
OEDIPUS
Once I heard that it should not have to hear .
I make what I should not make
The curses come true.
JOCASTA
My husband you put me in great concern
Ask what you want to know .
OEDIPUS
Was Killed no one of the fray.
JOCASTA
A servant who I sent him away after the murder.
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OEDIPUS
Is a great need to see him .
When the shepherd came revealed to Oedipus
How he gave the baby to another shepherd
That took him and went to Corinth.
Growing Oedipus learned that an old oracle
said that he will kill his father ,
And will marry his mother.
For this he left Corinth and went to the oracle
Delphi to ask what makes.
In the crossroads road for Phocida killed his father ,
Laius without knowing .
JOCASTA
Together we will uncover the truth
Together in life and in death .
The child that I gave birth with Laio
We left him in Kitherona
Because we knew the Oracles .
OEDIPUS
I want to see the shepherd .
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ANTIGONE
My
two beloved brothers, Eteocles
and
Polynices killed outside the walls
Seven-gate
city of Thebes. One Polynices remained 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.
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CREONThey
want to overthrow me
and
to take the power.
GUARDIAN
Brave
Creon
This
is the daughter who buried the dead.
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
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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.
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
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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.
BACCHAE KITHERONAS
I am
Dionysus son of Zeus
and
my mοther Semele daughter of Cadmus.
I
came to Thebes to found a new religion,
revolutionized
the women keep thyrsos in the hand.
The
Thebans seized by the bacchanal frenzy,
and
went to the mountain to take part
in
the ceremonies.
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Pentheus
the son of Agave is opposite to the deity.
Comes
the new religion, the new god
Dionysus
came to Greece from Phrygia.
Bacchus
is the son of my daughter said Cadmus
that
needs support.
Pentheus
I can help you said Dionysus
to
see what women do in Kitheronas.
A
lot I would like answered Pentheus.
They
will understand you immediately added Dionysus that wore women's clothes,
we
go inside the palace to clothe you,
you
will become unrecognizable.
Pentheus
pitiful death will find, his mother Agave
she
will kill her son, with her own hands.
Pentheus
came out from the palace wearing
bakchika
clothes.
Dionysus
went behind with a attaché.
First
Agave saw her son lurking
and
cried the other Bacchae,
Bacchae
who it is that came to Kitheronas
to
see what we make.
MESSENGER
Were
Lost the son of Echiona, Pentheus.
when
we arrived in Kitheronas at festival
said
Pentheus, on a tree will go up
to
see better there at the top of the tree,
he
became perceptible from the maenads.
Was
deeply heard the voice of Dionysus says,
women
are the one that is opposite in the new religion, that tyrannizes you.
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Bacchae
just heard the words of God flowed
crazy
on the slopes and ravines to find Pentheus,
the
king. When he saw the king on the tree began
throwing
stones, spears, Thyrsos,
but
could not reach him.
Then
they uprooted the tree and fell down Pentheus
noisy
crying from the pain.
His
mother Agave made a start and rushed over
the
King threw the braid to recognize him.
Mother,
Mummy, your son Pentheus I am,
I
was wrong, do not kill me, do not kill me.
Agave
was making foams from the mouth and
her
eyes throwing flames, seized from
the bacchanal frenzy.
She
caught Pentheus from left hand and immediately
detached
his shoulder. Ino her sister pulled
the
flesh and around Aytonoi and the other Bacchae
they
shouted crazy asking another blood.
They
scattered the pieces of the rocks,
his
mother Agave got the head, nailed
at
the edge of Thyrsos like he was head of a lion,
and
turning the Kitheronas.
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THIS
IS ΤΗΕ DEMOCRACY ΟF BIG TIME
THIS IS HISTORY
NIKOS
KOLESIS
