The theater session will take place this Friday, May 9, starting at 8:00 p.m.
Access to the show is free, and to access it, it is necessary to previously collect invitations from 7:00 p.m. at the Auditorium box office.
The Insular Auditorium of La Gomera hosts, this Friday, May 9, starting at 8:00 p.m., the play 'Échale la culpa a Pandora', by the Canarian actress and comedian Antonia San Juan. It is a multidisciplinary stage proposal, which questions the traditional representation of female figures in Greek mythology, and which has recently been selected for the renowned Mérida International Classical Theater Festival.
'Échale la culpa a Pandora' is a theatrical work that combines six monologues by Antonia San Juan with six original musical pieces performed by a string quartet and the singer Ada Rapisarda. Saint John plays the role of Cassandra, daughter of the kings of Troy, to whom the god Apollo gave the gift of clairvoyance and later burdened her with the curse that, not only would she not be able to keep her predictions to herself, but no one would believe them either.
Through the eyes of Cassandra, the public will learn the stories of six women from Greek mythology - Pandora, Persephone, Eurydice, Penelope, Ariadne and Helena -. Each of them, through all the stereotypes they represent, transmits the role, always secondary, that has been attributed to women since ancient Greece. All of this is narrated from Antonia San Juan's unmistakable sense of humor, but without failing to denounce the situation and the drama that all this represents and that has continued to this day.
Ada Rapisarda plays each of these women in the songs of the work, always narrating her point of view in each of the myths. The songs are usually a soliloquy of the heroines, who denounce how they are mistreated, abandoned, forgotten, and ignored, with very emotional music, different from anything that has been heard before.
'Blame it on Pandora' will make the audience laugh, cry, think, move and make the hair stand on end, but, above all, it will not leave anyone indifferent, proposing what the role of women has been throughout the entire history of humanity, dating back to ancient Greece.
Access to the venue
Access to the show is free and free, until capacity is reached. Thus, in order to attend the session, it will be necessary to previously collect the invitations – maximum two per person – at the Auditorium box office, starting at 7:00 p.m. – one hour before the start of the show.
MARES Program
The theatrical performance 'Flame Pandora' is within the framework of collaboration between the Island Council and the Canarian Institute of Cultural Development, through the MARES Program.
This program allows groups and companies to show their shows on islands other than where they reside. It is carried out in collaboration with the Public Stage Spaces of the Canary Islands, and is aimed at compensating for the extra cost of insularity that prevents cultural activity from being profitable in a territory fragmented into eight islands.
