Cyprus Theatre Organisation
Aristophanes, Plutus
“And how were your eyes so stricken?”, Chremylus asks blind Plutus. “Let Zeus take the blame, and his envy of mankind”, the mythic demigod replies, “for when I was young, I threatened to go only to the just, the wise and the honourable, and he struck me blind to make me unable to tell them apart”.
Aristophanes sets Plutus (338 BC) in an Attica desolated by war, and derides the rapacious profiteers who accumulate wealth while the peasants suffer, proposing a utopian solution to social inequalities.
Forging on with its engagement with ancient drama, this year the Cyprus Theatre Organization has decided to take a fresh look at Aristophanes’ final work. Under the direction of Nikos Charalampous, new and old members of the Cypriot company breath life into the work’s comic heroes and promise audiences vivacity and good humour, but relevance, too, to contemporary issues. [Α.Κ.]
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