Portal de San Javier
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Date: Friday, August 7
Location: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Time: 22: 30h.
Login: 14-16 euros.
"We agree that life had to be lived with consistency, honesty and justice. That is why we must be consistent to the end."
So Socrates faced his imminent death after being tried and convicted by his countrymen for having denounced corruption in Athens, and have warned about the superstitious and manipulative role of the official religion.
The actor José María Pou, stars "Socrates. Trial and death of a citizen," directed by Mario Gas, who together with Alberto Iglesias also signs the text of the assembly in which reproduces the trial to which he was subjected Socrates in 399 BC
The Athenian philosopher Plato's teacher, sentenced to death for the same democracy that helped create and which believed until the end, it was an uncomfortable character to the power of time knowledge based on doubt, and is reached accused of corrupting the youth, among other charges.
The show, based on the word and acting work, is a coproduction of the Festival of Classical Theatre, Teatre Romea and the Grec 2015, played alongside Pou, by Amparo Pamplona, ​​Carles Canut, Pep Molina Espinosa Borja Ramon Pujol and Guillem Motos.
The scenery is Murcia Paco Azorín, Antonio Belart costumes and lighting Txema Orriols.
Mario Gas, claiming contemporanedidad Socrates, whose death has become one of the famous story, is based on texts of Plato and historian Diogenes Laertius as Socrates, considered the father of Western thought, did not leave written about his thoughts.
He is credited with the famous phrase "I know that I know nothing" Socrates himself but denies in the work.
Socrates's wife, Xanthippe, and his friends will accompany him throughout the trial process and awaiting execution of the sentence along which also are appearing excerpts from his reflections on friendship, ethics and morality, life and death.
The work has gone through Mérida where the audience gave a standing ovation, and after his presentation at the Grec Festival of Barcelona and Romea theater, arrives at the Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance in San Javier before starting a tour that will take them to Madrid in February 2016.
The actor José María Pou returns to San Javier where last year he received the Award of the 45th edition of the Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance in which he participated as head of assembly of the work of Marguerite Yourcenar "Fires".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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