Event # 3 - Play: Detestable Madness

Play: Detestable Madness
Briar Cliff University Theater department
Directed by Jenna Soleo-Shanks
Play by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Sunday October 29. 7:30pm

I went by myself to the play and I found around some friends I know from around (there were about 30 people inside).  The atmosphere was cool, there was some background music and all the people arriving.
The play was really interesting, in act 1 the story of "Calimachus" talked about a man that fell in love of Drusiana (a chastised married woman) who in response to her moral values was unable to confront her feelings.  Calimachus (Patrick Cisar) did not cared she was married and neither chaste, he was passionate and devoted.  In this part of the play Drusiana (Alyssa Keller) through her dance demonstrated anxiety and martyrdom, she struggled between desire and morality.  She died of repressed passion, and later this together was this same consequence for Calimachus' dead, who was audacious and revealing till the end.
During the play, there were several symbolic characters: a snake, which was representation of evil and sin; Saint John (the priest) who represented morality and faith.  Another character, Fortunatus, who used a mask with a big and exaggerated ugly nose, he was against the system, and represented an immoral and resigned person.  At the end, after Calimachus, Drusiana and even Fortunatus were resurrected.   Fortunatus did not accepted his reality, he did not wanted to overcome his greed and his jealousy so he died once again.
In the second play a story about a Sapientia and her three daughters.   During the play the four of them confronted a Roman Emperor who wanted to change them to their faith.  The three girls named Fides, Spes, and Karitas (from Fidelity, hope, and charity) refused to show any reverence to the king's gods.  As the meaning of their names, they remained faithful to their mother's faith, to Christianity.  After it, they with hope and later with charity, one by one was tortured and killed until their mother was left by herself with the heads of her three daughters.
In words, in action and in dramatic expression, the characters demonstrated feelings and ironies that easily connected to the audience self.  At the end, with a long recitation, the characters all together made the audience feel connected in some way to the cast.  I wish I could have identified what was everything that they said, they where very profound but they used some English that was kind of difficult for me to understand.
As some other events similar to this that I have went before, there was a feeling of satisfaction at the end.  I got to know a little bit more about the human being, about myself and about society around, is part of the feeling that I most liked about it.