Premiere of “The disobedience of Mars” at the Cultural Center of Science

2023-06-03 17:00:51

On Friday June 3, at the Cultural Center of Science (C3)the play was premiered The disobedience of Mars co-produced by the Cervantes National Theater and the Cultural Center of Science. The show tells the story of the German astronomer and mathematician, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), who, invited by Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and imperial mathematician of Rudolf II, collaborates to decipher the trajectories of the orbits, especially that of Mars, the most rebel.

The premiere was attended by the Ministers of Culture and Science, Technology and Education, Tristan Bauer and Daniel Filmus. During the act, Bauer he highlighted the importance of theater in linking science and culture, and thanked his peer, Daniel Filmus, for the years of working together at Canal Encuentro and Tecnópolis. For his part. Movies expressed: “There are many meeting points between theater and science, such as ethics, the beauty of forms, and both have the same enemies, censorship, obscurantism, totalitarianism, and one in favor: the State, which it must put them at the service of everyone”, he concluded.

The disobedience of Mars

The work tells the story of astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler who talk in a castle and work on the trajectories of the orbits, especially that of Mars. The play delves into the tense relationship between scientists and in an unexpected turn, like the movement of Mars, takes another course to enter the intimacy of the actors who, like Kepler and Brahe, are looking for the truth. Set in 1600 or today, the game of opposites intermingles to enable memory, beliefs and human relationships. Both need each other, both mistrust each other, but without the other they cannot reach the movement of Mars or discover who each one is.

Villoro was inspired by the book “The Sleepwalkers”, by Arthur Koestler, to write this piece that starts from the conjectures about the origin of the Universe, and takes, in particular, the meeting of astronomers in the castle of Benatek, Bohemia, in 1600 to decipher the orbits of the planets.

Also present were the Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Raquel “Kelly” Olmos; the Director of the Cervantes National Theater, Gladis Contreras; the Director of the Falklands and South Atlantic Islands Museum and ex-combatant, Edgardo Esteban; the reference of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line, Taty Almeida; journalist Víctor Hugo Morales, among other cultural personalities.

Performed by Osmar Núñez and Lautaro Delgado Tymruk, the work is recommended for people over 16 years of age.

The performances are from Friday to Sunday, at 8:00 p.m., in the C3 auditorium (Godoy Cruz 2270, CABA), with free seats obtained with Advance reservation

Photos: Ministry of Science, Technology and Education.