the amazons

The producer Pentation it helps us this week, in open, the production of the Merida International Classical Theater Festival the amazons, that we could see in Sagunt a Escena two years ago. Magüi Mira has made a free adaptation (especially in the tragic ending) of this legend collected in The Iliad of Homer that has fascinated so much to this day, becoming, For example, In inspiration from comic and film heroes such as Wonder Woman. The history of the Amazons is, therefore, well known, They were a people made up of warrior women who rebelled against the invading Ethiopian and swore that they would never serve any man.. The result was a new State of women where the ambitious voice of men was never imposed.. Limited by swollen breasts that “only” served to feed their young and forced to fight to survive., They decided to cut off their right breast to be more effective in the war. Besides, to continue being owners of themselves, They imposed a new law: They would only copulate with men whom they had defeated and hunted for a single purpose., procreate to maintain their lineage of females. If the children were born boys, they will die. Possessive love was forbidden. But look where, Pentesilea (Silvia Abascal), queen of the amazons, falls in love with Achilles (Xabier Murua) and its principles begin to falter. Surprisingly, The Amazons join the Trojans in the war against Sparta so that Penthesilea and Achilles end up facing each other and falling madly in love.. Their respective clans, the Amazons with the Mother of Mothers at the head (Loles Leon), solemn and empowered; and the greeks, commanded by the cartoonish Ulysses (king of Ithaca) and Diomedes (king of Aetolia), they question his judgment for being clouded by love. He wants to surrender so he can possess her, she wants to subdue him so she can love him. the amazons by Magüi Mira is a song to feminine strength and power, in which a bitter struggle breaks out between the desires for love and the desire for death, that reflects the torment of loving the enemy and remembers the absurdity of sides and trenches when love sneaks through the cracks. AU