NTNG 2024: Plutus, teaser

FOREST FESTIVAL 2024
VENUE: Forest (Dasous) Theatre
DATES: Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 July 2024
ATHENS EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL 2024
VENUE: Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
DATES: Friday 19 & Saturday 20 July 2024
We are in 388 BC. The Peloponnesian War has ended with the Athenians left crashed and defeated, which marked the end of the Athenian hegemony. The honest Chremylus, a poor Athenian peasant, Aristophanes’ alter ego, is experiencing the new reality in a traumatic way: social values, ideas, and morals have fallen away.
The lack of resources and social justice, as well as the fear of impoverishment, terrify this romantic utopian, especially for his child’s future. He resorts to the Oracle of Delphi posing the agonising question “what can I do to ensure a secure future for my child?”. The oracle tells him to take care of the first helpless person he meets on his way. This is none other than the god Plutus, who generously gives away gold, money, and all material goods Chremylus and the whole society has dreamt of! They are all rich now! Their dream has come true. But deep down this dream turns out to be a test: in the absence of social cohesion and solidarity, self-awareness, and social conscience, how can the common good be served?
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