Theatre is a part of literature when you write it down and part of your life when you enact the play. The characters come to life. There are no visual or audio effects…there is just a destiny created by a brilliant mind for those who are called ordinary people.
SOFOCLE – Oedip king – tragedy 429 I.H.
The story is set in the ancient Greece, in times when gods were rulling the world, and two people could be man & wife, and mother & son at the same time. It’s the tragedy of a man who wants to discover the truth, investigates, finds it out, and he punishes himself in the end. Oedip lives a dramatic story bearing great afllictions, a mental agony and physical torture too. Do you know why? Well…I won’t tell you…find out by yourself.
MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) - L’avare - comedy 1668
L’avare is a comedy that can put you in trouble. Different lives and love stories interwave creating comic situations. While Harpagon is in love with Mariane, she loves his son, Cleante, even though he intends to marry him with an old widow. Cleante’s sister , Elise is Valler’s lover. Her father plans to marry her with an old rich man, Anselme. But their lives are overthrown when they discover that Anselme is Mariane and Valler’s father. So which of these couples will survive until the end of the story? Got it ? Are you in trouble now? You’d better watch the play…’cause you won’t clear up the mistery.
SHAKESPEARE (William) – Hamlet - tragedy 1600
The tragedy tells the story of a young king , Hamlet of Denmark. His ghost is haunting the Elsinore Castle in order to take revenge for Hamlet’s death. He says that his brother, Claudius, murdered him. The prince, Hamlet’s son, pretends to be insane and tries to create a diversion in order to find out the truth about his father. So he uses an acting troupe to enact a play depicting the supposed events of king’s death to notice Claudius’ reactions. Is he the true murderer? Will Hamlet the king take his avenge? Just READ the exciting story … or you can also watch it, the vivid story played at the theatre.
SHAKESPEARE (William) – The taming of the shrew - comedy
Petruchio and Catarina are the central couple of the play and it depicts the relationship between an intelligent , loud-mouthed and bad tempered woman and a man who tries to make her obedient to his will. How could Petruchio tame the shrew he married with?