Agenda Municipal / Theatre Hippolytus (premiere)
Fri 22 and Sat 23 Jul
Casa das Artes programme
Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 21h30
Admission: 4 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (from 65 years old): 2 euros | Co-production: Casa das Artes de Famalicão and ACE Escola de Artes de Famalicão | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 150 min
Being chaste and the purest of Men, Hippolytus abhors the pleasures of the flesh, refusing outright to venerate and pay due homage to the goddess Cypris (Aphrodite), incurring the tremendous sin of hybris, and therefore being punished with his tragic death.
This hybris - excessive confidence, exaggerated pride, arrogance and/or insolence - does not make Hippolytus in any way totally innocent. His excessive - because exclusive and exacerbated - veneration of Artemis, the virgin goddess of the forests and the hunt, who soon cast him into an offensive and unnatural virginity, is as responsible for his death as the passion that his stepmother, Phaedra, feels for him.
Set ablaze by the designs of the offended and vengeful Cypris, Pharisee wastes away with passion for her stepson Hippolytus. Wounded by love, she begins by keeping quiet and concealing her "illness" in the face of her Nanny's insistence on discovering her evil, trying to resist and overcome the delusions of passion with efforts at sensible reflection.
However, Cypris "is not a goddess: she is a being more powerful than a god."
List of credits
Text: Euripides
Translation: Anne Thomas
Adapted by: Rogério de Carvalho
Directed by: Miguel Eloy
Assistant Director: António Barata
Cast: Alexandra Gordo, Ana Lopes, Ana Margarida Silva, Beatrice Gonçalves, César Reguengo, Diana Catarina, Fátima Andreina Velazco, Inês Madureira, Joana Gonçalves, Joana Leite, Luís Pacheco, Melro, Mi Gonçalves, Nathan Sabadine, Nicole Ferreira, Paulo Sousa, Simão Barboss
Stage Design Support: Filipe Mendes
Costumes and Props: Paula Cabral
Light Design: Tiago Silva
Sound design: Fábio Ferreira
Stage Photography: João Duarte
Video Recording: Rui Bezerra
Hair: José Resende
Production Direction: Glória Cheio
Production: Sofia Peralta
Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 21h30
Admission: 4 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (from 65 years old): 2 euros | Co-production: Casa das Artes de Famalicão and ACE Escola de Artes de Famalicão | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 150 min
Being chaste and the purest of Men, Hippolytus abhors the pleasures of the flesh, refusing outright to venerate and pay due homage to the goddess Cypris (Aphrodite), incurring the tremendous sin of hybris, and therefore being punished with his tragic death.
This hybris - excessive confidence, exaggerated pride, arrogance and/or insolence - does not make Hippolytus in any way totally innocent. His excessive - because exclusive and exacerbated - veneration of Artemis, the virgin goddess of the forests and the hunt, who soon cast him into an offensive and unnatural virginity, is as responsible for his death as the passion that his stepmother, Phaedra, feels for him.
Set ablaze by the designs of the offended and vengeful Cypris, Pharisee wastes away with passion for her stepson Hippolytus. Wounded by love, she begins by keeping quiet and concealing her "illness" in the face of her Nanny's insistence on discovering her evil, trying to resist and overcome the delusions of passion with efforts at sensible reflection.
However, Cypris "is not a goddess: she is a being more powerful than a god."
List of credits
Text: Euripides
Translation: Anne Thomas
Adapted by: Rogério de Carvalho
Directed by: Miguel Eloy
Assistant Director: António Barata
Cast: Alexandra Gordo, Ana Lopes, Ana Margarida Silva, Beatrice Gonçalves, César Reguengo, Diana Catarina, Fátima Andreina Velazco, Inês Madureira, Joana Gonçalves, Joana Leite, Luís Pacheco, Melro, Mi Gonçalves, Nathan Sabadine, Nicole Ferreira, Paulo Sousa, Simão Barboss
Stage Design Support: Filipe Mendes
Costumes and Props: Paula Cabral
Light Design: Tiago Silva
Sound design: Fábio Ferreira
Stage Photography: João Duarte
Video Recording: Rui Bezerra
Hair: José Resende
Production Direction: Glória Cheio
Production: Sofia Peralta
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