Theater — «Blame Pandora»
Theater — «Blame Pandora» at the Cruce de Culturas Theater, Agüimes, Gran Canaria.
Blame Pandora is a theatrical play that combines 6 monologues by actress and comedian Yanely Hernández with 6 original musical pieces performed by a string quartet and singer Ada Rapisarda. Yanely plays the role of Cassandra, daughter of the kings of Troy, to whom the god Apollo gave the gift of clairvoyance, only to later burden her with the curse that not only would she not be able to keep her predictions to herself, but also no one would believe them.
Through Cassandra's gaze, we learn the stories of 6 women from Greek mythology: Pandora, Persephone, Eurydice, Penelope, Ariadne, and Helen. Each of them, through all the stereotypes they represent, conveys to us the role, always secondary, attributed to women since ancient Greece. All of this is narrated with Yanely Hernández's unmistakable sense of humor, but without ceasing to denounce the situation and the drama that all this represents and that has been dragged on to our days; after all, the Greeks are the inventors of tragicomedy.
Ada Rapisarda interprets each of these women in the play's songs, always narrating their point of view in each of the myths. The songs are usually a soliloquy by our heroines, who denounce how they are mistreated, abandoned, forgotten, ignored… with very emotional music, different from anything heard before.
Blame Pandora will make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, move you, and give you goosebumps, but, above all, it will not leave you indifferent and will make you question the role of women throughout the history of humanity, starting from ancient Greece.
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