‘Caligula must die’, “the power of the orgy and the orgy of power”

2023-04-20 01:03:17
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus has gone down in history as Caligula, one of the cruelest, most bloodthirsty and megalomaniac Roman emperors. It is not surprising that cinema and theater – Albert Camus premiered the stage version in 1945, probably the most relevant and famous – have focused on a character whom Philo of Alexandria and Seneca the Younger described as an irascible, capricious, wasteful and sick madman. sexual. Mabel del Pozo and Xoel Fernández now return to the emperor and the gaze that Camus posed on him in a work entitled ‘Caligula must die’, which will be in the Sala Mirador from today. Director and actor sign the text, in which, “based on his historical tragedy, he reflects on human nature, the perversion of society and existentialism,” according to the two managers. “As I understand the theater, the fact of dealing with characters like Caligula requires being prepared to give birth to places that scare us all,” says Mabel del Pozo. «The terrible pain that the early loss of his sister Drusilla supposes for Caligula -the director and actor continue-, will unleash within him a metaphysical rebellion against the order of things. If the world is absurd, its government will be too. He will then become obsessed with the impossible, with the moon… he will present himself as a god and will try, thanks to his absolute power, to pervert each and every one of the supposed human values. And all this will be done in front of the impassive gaze of his generation. In front of our eyes. Yes. He did everything I did because he could do it ». «I am interested in the monster – admits Mabel del Pozo-, I am interested in inquiring into the power of the orgy and in the orgy of power. I am fascinated by embarking on the pursuit of the absolute, of the impossible, of the divine… on the other side. And at the same time, inevitably, I can’t help but wonder who is the man behind such a thick shell. I need to know about his fears and pain, about his despair. I am overwhelmed by his need to possess the moon and I am constantly moved by his constant rebellion against an absurd and tragic world, which admits only one destiny for human beings: death ». Standard Related News If Mary Beard: “Rome dealt with multiple identities, why not us?” Karina Sainz Borgo standard No The origin of Caligula’s madness: the Roman emperor of a thousand perversions César Cervera Xoel Fernández, for his part, assures that «my great objective (among many others), to get into the skin of such a character pre-established in the collective imagination as Caligula, is not to fall into the archetype, to give it meat. This is a work about the shadows that we all have and specifically, about what triggers them; I am always interested in finding what has never been said about a character, what he would never have wanted to be known».
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